UbuntuExpress to-do list

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• do something better than the current mountpoint selector
• combine partman and partman_commit so that we don't have to start up the partitioner again (not urgent)
• UI polishing:
  • keymap screen needs a good polishing
  • probably more
• fix up various untranslatable strings
• Add a "hardware clock is in local time" checkbox to timezone selector that sets "UTC=no", and otherwise DTRT.

braindump from UI sprint

• picture on left-hand side depicting stage of installation
• max dimensions: 700x500 (?)
• language:
  • make better use of empty screen space
• 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
  • zoom out on leaving map area?
  • if zooming out on leaving map area, zoom out more slowly
  • reduce number of alignment points
• keymap
  • make better use of empty screen space
• identification:
  • 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
• summary

  • bevel text box (ColinWatson: changing xthickness/ythickness seems to be excessively hard in pygtk)

deferred

• language:
  • use horizontally-scrolling tabular list view (too hard to do in GTK at the moment)
• 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)

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
• infer country from timezone
• reconfigure locale according to selected country
• 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 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
• use apt-setup to generate standard sources.list?
• copy network configuration
• 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
  • autopartitioning screen is a quick hack, redo once partman lets us do better

  • replace breadcrumbs with "Step x of y" in bottom left corner (DanielSilverstone)

  • excise remaining Spanish strings
• add glue to make preseeding work
• sort out localisation in general

• general gparted cleanup (DanielSilverstone)

KDE Frontend Done

• Map Widget (based off kworldmapclock)
• qt parted should return a list of partitions and their formats
• qt parted should apply when clicking Next
• qt parted UI simplifying (remove left hand side, replace with drop down box of disks)
• BUG: two progress dialogues appear
• Resize partition option (waiting on GTK frontend first)
• fix up various untranslatable strings
• disable back/next buttons when busy and show a busy cursor

done (from UI sprint)

• horizontal rule above dialog action area
• 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"

  • show selected country
• 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
  • run laptop-detect, "username-desktop" / "username-laptop" as default hostname
• advanced partitioning:
  • "Prepare partitions"
  • move explanatory text to bottom
• mountpoints
  • needs format checkbox

  • "Format?" -> "Reformat?"

  • grey out "Reformat?" if no filesystem on partition
  • check Reformat? by default for /, /usr, /var, maybe /boot?
• summary
  • ditch expander and "Details"
  • border between text and edge of box
  • use standard dialog background (gtk.Label.set_selectable(True))
• install bar
  • madly wrong copying time
  • better indications that it's doing something at various points
• final page
  • needs better wording
  • reboot needs to switch VC (gdmflexiserver)