issues with warty final

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 05:41:57PM +0200, Steven Van Impe wrote:

> * There is still a 'Not yet implemented' part in the partitioner that
> asks you to go back and correct your settings. Regular users will
> probably think that there is a problem and will go back trying to
> correct something that isn't even wrong (getting stuck in an infinite
> loop). Putting 'Not yet implemented' on the screen is not a solution
> since non-technical users won't even know what implemented means.

How did you arrive at this screen?

> * The 'Download updates from internet' part isn't really clear to me.
> Since the final release is just out, there shouldn't be much updates,
> but I still see messages scrolling by about Gnomes doing the Samba with
> Pythons (assuming I'm Joe User) for about 10-15 minutes.

Those aren't updates from the Internet, they're software packages from the
CD being installed.

> If I skip this part (assuming I do not have an internet connection) stuff
> goes wrong and once I even got dropped in a console.

Not enough information.

> * After bootup the keyboard isn't set to the correct layout (I chose
> Belgian layout at setup but got stuck with US English).

On the console?  If so, I have never seen this happen.

> * Using the Keyboard tool in preferences, I deleted US English, got a
> weird error about XKB, ignored it and added Belgian, which solved the
> problem.

This seems to happen when you delete _all_ layouts.  I don't see any reason
why you would want to do this, but it should not issue an error in this
case.  Please file a bug about it.

> * GDM keeps on using US English, perhaps this could be solved by logging
> in as gdm and changing the keyboard by hand ? I guess this will go away
> by itself if the keyboard layout chosen during install is used as the
> default for all users, including gdm.

https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2106

> * Application names in the Applications menu aren't really pretty. I
> would definity propose to just use a description instead of a name and a
> description (so 'Media Player' instead of' Totem Media Player').
> Conflicts shouldn't arise since we need but one app for each task
> anyway. If it were me, I'd get ALL specific names out of the entire
> desktop since they're just one more thing (25 more things?) users need
> to learn in order to use their system (you could still keep them as
> nicknames in the about panel for example).

This was done explicitly, and for good reasons, upstream in the GNOME
project.

> * Computer\Disks points to Computer (not just disks but network
> locations as well).

Known (minor) issue.

> * There are two terribly complicated mixers in Volume Control (one for
> OSS, one for ALSA). I know Volume Control is getting a makeover, but
> please make sure that there is but one mixer for each soundcard.

Agreed; only the ALSA mixer should be displayed.  Please file a bug.

> * Totem is terribly broken: playlist didn't really work, visualisations
> didn't work (and screen got stuck), and I got crazy errors when loading
> video files: loading a file called
> 'Futurama.S01E01.Space.Pilot.3000.DVDRip.DivX.PROPER-LOL' resulted in
> Totem trying to load something by the name of 'Lol, Lol, 75, 75, Lol,
> Lol'.

FAQ

> * Since Totem with GStreamer backend isn't fully functional anyway (and
> users will have to install totem-xine to play files - Joe User probably
> never heard of Vorbis or Theora), why not drop it completely: if it's
> installed by default, Joe User will assume it works and won't understand
> that installing the same program again makes a difference.

It will be improved in future releases.

-- 
 - mdz