ToDo

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UbuntuExpress to-do list

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  • infer country from timezone and reconfigure locale accordingly
  • combine partman and partman_commit so that we don't have to start up the partitioner again
  • general gparted cleanup (DanielSilverstone)

  • do something better than the current mountpoint selector
  • use apt-setup to generate standard sources.list?
  • copy network configuration
  • lots of UI polishing:
    • keymap screen needs a good polishing
    • autopartitioning screen is a quick hack, redo once partman lets us do better
    • excise remaining Spanish strings
    • replace breadcrumbs with "Step x of y" in bottom left corner (DanielSilverstone)

    • probably more
  • fix up various untranslatable strings
  • KDE frontend (specific to-do items can go here later) (JonathanRiddell)

braindump from UI sprint

  • picture on left-hand side depicting stage of installation
  • horizontal rule above dialog action area
  • max dimensions: 700x500 (?)
  • language:
    • make better use of empty screen space
    • use horizontally-scrolling tabular list view
  • location:
    • not clear that you don't have to hit the timezone point first time
    • more explanatory text at the top of the timezone page
    • async NTP run? (maybe satisfied by time-admin in "Adjust..."?)
    • zoom out on leaving map area?
    • if zooming out on leaving map area, zoom out more slowly
    • show selected country
    • reduce number of alignment points
  • keymap:
    • use horizontally-scrolling tabular list view (as with language)
  • identification:
    • once passwords are same length, display inline error on mismatch (difficult while using user-setup validation)
    • run laptop-detect, "username-desktop" / "username-laptop" as default hostname
    • password error causes page to jump around
  • advanced partitioning:
    • get rid of operations window entirely
    • some way to change existing filesystem
    • really really want mountpoint here if possible
    • otherwise do what we can
  • mountpoints:
    • "Format?" -> "Reformat?", grey out if no filesystem on partition

    • check Reformat? by default for /, /usr, /var, maybe /boot?
  • install bar
    • madly wrong copying time
    • better indications that it's doing something at various points
  • summary
    • bevel text box
  • final page
    • reboot needs to switch VC (gdmflexiserver)

done

  • API shake-up to allow debconffiltered coprocesses to run asynchronously
  • actually run debconffiltered coprocesses asynchronously so UI works smoothly
  • missing UI steps:
    • language
    • keymap
    • location/timezone (need to evaluate existing code, e.g. Evolution timezone widget)
    • "ready to install" summary
  • language pack support
  • automatic partitioning was broken
  • include partitioning commit in main installation progress bar
  • change partman control flow (including in d-i, probably) to better support [:UbuntuExpress/PartitioningTool:proposed multiple-disk UI] (FabioMassimoDiNitto)

  • sort out espresso-grub trying to install grub from the network
  • yaboot installation
  • move copy/configuration code to a separate debconffiltered process to avoid progress bar code duplication and so that it runs asynchronously without messing around with threads
  • UI polishing:
    • separate windows for installation progress bar and farewell text
    • use a dialog from partman/confirm* instead of the weird "confirm automatic partitioning" checkbox
    • tell the user he needs to be root for the installer to work (if started as non-root)
    • back button doesn't always work properly
    • summary page needs to have Install not Forward
    • username/password/hostname screen needs sprucing up
  • add glue to make preseeding work
  • sort out localisation in general

done (from UI sprint)

  • locale:
    • move locale select box into main body of page
    • more conventional background colour for locale page
  • keymap:
    • add typing-test region to keymap page
    • move keymap page after location selection
  • location:
    • button to allow changing current time (with time-admin)
    • current time should use LC_TIME
    • first click should be a magnifying glass?
    • border around map
    • UTC -> GMT

    • UTC-8.5 => GMT-8:30

    • "Adjust..." -> "Set Time..."

    • remove justification text from bottom, add text to top something like "Select a city in your country and time zone"
    • "Nearest city" => "Best city"

  • identification:
    • "Who are you?"
    • restore hostname question ("Computer name") - short hostname only (no standard for where to put longer name)
    • cut password field down to 12 characters
  • advanced partitioning:
    • "Prepare partitions"
    • move explanatory text to bottom
  • mountpoints
    • needs format checkbox
  • summary
    • ditch expander and "Details"
    • border between text and edge of box
    • use standard dialog background (gtk.Label.set_selectable(True))
  • final page
    • needs better wording

UbuntuExpress/ToDo (last edited 2008-08-06 16:15:37 by localhost)