MaverickOEMConfig
Launchpad Entry: foundations-m-oem-config-user-experience
Created: 2010/05/27
Contributors: EvanDandrea
Packages affected: ubiquity
Summary
We will add a slideshow to oem-config and smooth out some rough edges.
Release Note
oem-config now shows a slideshow while configuring the system. It now gracefully transitions back to the loading screen when it is doing final cleanup.
Rationale
User stories
- An OEM would like to use the new slideshow feature in oem-config to display some highlights of their product.
Design
A slideshow will be created that derives from the normal ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu package. This derivative will not include some of the slides to better fit the shorter install time. It will also replace the first and last slides to avoid saying that the process is installation, rather than configuring, and that it will reboot when it is done.
Implementation
Slideshow
We will benchmark the time it takes oem-config to install, on average, and use that as a guide to select a number of slides that will fit within that timeframe. The new slideshow will be added as a dependency to oem-config, expressed as a virtual package so that derivative distributions may provide their own version.
Making oem-config distinction clear
When in oem-config mode, the title of the main window will be set to "configuring system" instead of the default "installing system" string.
oem-config removal
Instead of showing the GTK debconf frontend while removing oem-config, ubiquity will switch batch to plymouth until it starts the new X server.