Install Wizard 'Looks Too Complicated'

[Evan]

I agree with Daniel that combining all the screens goes to far, but I sort
of like the concept behind Ryan's single-screen dialogue. How about
something like this:

Screen 1: Welcome
Brief welcome message.
Language - From what they chose at boot, dropdown list.
Keyboard - Autodetected as it already is, dropdown list.
Location/TimeZone - Autodetected, otherwise to "Unknown [GMT]", a button to
open current map dialogue.
Computer Name - textbox, default text "ubuntu-desktop"

Screen 2: Installation Location
The current partitioning screen, but simplified/hidden even more.
Text like: "Ubuntu will be installed beside Windows XP on this machine. How
much space do you want to give to Ubuntu?"
A scroll box (in percent, I would think) of free space.
A button that says "Change" which takes you to the current partitioning
screen.

Screen 3: Users
Not sure how best to merge the import screen and the user-info screen, but I
think they should both go into one screen here.
Perhaps have a dialogue for create-a-user which opens by default (this
allows manual entry or importing for all data).
Then ask "Create another user?" (opens the dialogue again) or "Done?".

Screen 4: Confirmation

Since the fourth screen doesn't really require much interaction, we could do
some marketing with our "three-step install" or something along those lines.

Just my two cents,
Evan
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