UI considerations with gfxboot

Corey Burger corey.burger at gmail.com
Sun Dec 18 21:30:16 GMT 2005


n 12/16/05, Martijn van de Streek <martijn at foodfight.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Corey Burger wrote:
>
> > Precisely as Jeff says.
> >
> > Is there any sane reason why we cannot simply leave it at gfxboot
> > until the user explicitly hits a key? To me, the rationale that a
> > clock "simplfies" it for a user simply doesn't fly.
>
> I imagine automatically starting is necessary for some unattended
> installation setups?
>
> Martijn

Martijn,

Sorry this argument doesn't fly with me (It may with others, however).
The reason it doesn't fly is that the 90% use case is one person
installing and being in front of the computer the whole time. That 90%
breaks down roughly into two groups:

1. Those of us who understand the installer and can practically
install in their sleep. For us, the old d-i worked fine and thus
gfxboot isn't really aimed at us

2. Those who don't really don't know how to install. Maybe this is the
first time they have done it. This is precisely the group we need to
use Linux more and these kind of people often feel time pressured by
computers and get flustered. What appears to be a giant ticking
timebomb in the corner might just be enough for them to go back to
Windows and deal with the low-level stress there.

Corey


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