From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pierre Neidhardt Subject: Re: Merging =?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=98wip-newt-installer=E2=80=99?= in master? Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2019 19:26:31 +0100 Message-ID: <8736po8qy0.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> References: <87lg6sejwa.fsf@gmail.com> <87efbgx0p0.fsf@gnu.org> <87sgzw5ylb.fsf@gmail.com> <87zhu1cw4p.fsf_-_@gnu.org> <875zwp17od.fsf@gmail.com> <87lg5j6h00.fsf@gnu.org> <87pnuv26jv.fsf@gmail.com> <87efbb4xpt.fsf@gnu.org> <871s7bm8k5.fsf@gmail.com> <8736rl6049.fsf@gmail.com> <874lc15opg.fsf@gnu.org> <87r2f4smlk.fsf@gmail.com> <8736rk6ui1.fsf@gnu.org> <87d0qgt8ej.fsf@gmail.com> <871s5q1zyv.fsf@gnu.org> <874ladwudb.fsf@gmail.com> <87zhs0tq7s.fsf@gnu.org> <87va2ov15l.fsf@gmail.com> <87won4rvye.fsf@gnu.org> <87va2npt44.fsf@gmail.com> <87lg3jv33o.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:60512) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gkvKH-0000gn-3G for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jan 2019 13:26:37 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gkvKG-0007Rt-6C for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jan 2019 13:26:37 -0500 In-reply-to: <87lg3jv33o.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: Guix-devel --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I've had a quick go and I must say I like it a lot! Great job, Mathieu! A few things: =2D When booting on my desktop with a RX580 GPU, I end up with a blank scre= en. Turns out that only the display is somehow failing (still investigating), b= ut pressing Ctrl-Alt-F2 brings me to the documentation! I suggest we add a 10 second-timeout to the graphical installer so that if = there is no user interaction, it automatically switches back to TTY3 with an explanatory message, e.g. =2D-8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- There was no user activity on the graphical installer which may be due to a display issue. You can proceed with the installation via command line from here. Press Ctrl-Alt-F2 to go to the documentation screen. Press Ctrl-Alt-F1 to go back to the graphical installer screen. =2D-8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- =2D Add and extra warning before partitioning! I did it wrong at first but= I did not expect the installer to proceed straight away, I thought I would have= a second chance at reviewing the changes before proceeding. =2D More generally, I like the idea of a two-stage process: first collect t= he details from the user (without actually performing any change), then show= a summary of the changes, ask for confirmation and only then apply all the changes in one go. Thanks again for the great contribution! Cheers! =2D-=20 Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEUPM+LlsMPZAEJKvom9z0l6S7zH8FAlxDa9cACgkQm9z0l6S7 zH/3igf/SE+5USSEV6XGvcL9POlt21pRidYoOdI42xnYqP/dq+BOttOfLDUpfLdO xrMnRzS5Ni4R8YlWu4raqeJ9bHqrI33eRNloP0HsrBHijtEuPQz7CxxFyvkmw3aL N0ef33OoUP+K9hq9e81CYsBlekJAJyoDSdfWXrKu+WvJKKx9/YtxYaeSklayFa/e HX3m0/Z3WEp5B3SsijPZJqHlhmf6meTTeR3eOcYfIukxBrwgBDnaVqfcLwN+a8P4 d+5ZIeq4f1dOidzlBnxz0mZeL54Ofd4rvqYzJ4Ds3giPZEkXligs65lugoPjEaB6 VU/Xb9Xf/3bXqcvguGRT0v/vb/ZjYA== =It1Y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--