Ubiquity fix for side-by-side installation

Hannie Dumoleyn lafeber-dumoleyn2 at zonnet.nl
Wed Oct 16 14:28:15 UTC 2013


op 16-10-13 14:00, Tom Davies schreef:
> Hi :) 
> I think that is a side-issue.  It is a bit weird but without being
> harmful. 
>
> My point about the partition sizes could easily lead people into
> damaging their systems irreparably if the screen-shots are not
> changed.  Even a minimal install of Xp takes up more space than is
> shown so if people use the image as a guide and forced it then they
> would break Xp, Vista, Win7 or Win8 beyond repair. 
>
> It's more likely a new user would install alongside one of the various
> versions of Windows but only if it's on a desktop or large laptop. 
> However, even longer-term users are not always aware of the option of
> making a multi-boot with various installs of Ubuntu. 
True, but you are not going to install ubuntu 13.10 alongside ubuntu
13.10 I presume.
>
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, 16 October 2013, 11:35, Hannie Dumoleyn
> <lafeber-dumoleyn2 at zonnet.nl> wrote:
> I was wondering why the header says: Install Ubuntu 13.10 alongside
> Ubuntu 13.10.
>
> op 16-10-13 11:30, Dmitrijs Ledkovs schreef:
> > Originally the design called out for the following screen in the
> > side-by-side automatic installer:
> >
> >
> http://assets.ubuntu.com/sites/ubuntu/588/u/img/download/desktop-1204-install-5.jpg
> >
> > Unfortunately that regressed, see
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/947107
> >
> > It ended up looking like this in Saucy:
> >
> >
> https://launchpadlibrarian.net/142490601/Screenshot%20from%202013-06-15%2013%3A54%3A55.png
> >
> > This has now been fixed, and now it looks like this:
> >
> > https://launchpadlibrarian.net/153861270/new-dividors.png
> > https://launchpadlibrarian.net/153861844/lubuntu-new-dividors.png
> >
> > This is a critical usability bug, thus it will go in as part of the
> > next ubiquity upload and respin for saucy. (despite user-interface
> > freeze et al)
> >
> > If there are screenshots / documentation about those screens, you may
> > want to update the screenshots once it's available on the saucy
> > images.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Dmitrijs.
> >
>
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