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Re: [Dragora-users] dragora-installer: Message improvement proposal I


From: Michael Siegel
Subject: Re: [Dragora-users] dragora-installer: Message improvement proposal I
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 17:40:35 +0100
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Am 31.12.19 um 23:16 schrieb Matias Fonzo:
> Hi again :-)
> 
> El 2019-12-29 06:11, Michael Siegel escribió:
>> Am 28.12.19 um 23:46 schrieb Matias Fonzo:
>>> Michael,
>>>
>>> I have carried out the suggestions you made, you can take a look at the
>>> current status of the installer here[1]:
>>>
>>> [1] https://share.riseup.net/#4NH1c8qSm2eFg5oGg6n_JA
>>
>> Hm… I'm not sure this really is an improvement. The previous version was
>> really quite good already. It just needed a few small fixes. So, I'd
>> rather go with that (plus the fixes I suggested) and try to find the
>> right wording for what Space and Enter are used for. The text should
>> really be kept concise and that's what the previous version was.
>>
>> So, my suggestion is to revert to that and try to fix it without adding
>> any extra explanation. Once we have the terms right, this should not be
>> much of a problem. Maybe the Ncurses documentation can help with that.
>> I'll give it a read as soon as I can.
>>
> 
> I have made new changes trying to follow the previous changes or
> corrections to be applied with the difference that I have changed the
> following:
> 
> - I am using "Use the cursor keys .... to move to a new position on a
> window" rather than "to move around in the installer's menu" (I am not
> 100% sure if this is correct, and also I don't like too much how it
> sounds).
> 
> - I left out Enter because it's pretty obvious, more so in distributions
> like Dragora.
> 
> - Space is not mentioned either, it is better to mention it where it is
> useful (in the checklists).

I think that how to navigate within the installer should be documented
in a straight-forward way and without assuming the user already knows
how to do (some of) it.

If the description of that can't be kept short enough to make it fit
well into the initial installer window, a separate help menu should be
provided.

> Please take a look how the initial screen of the installer looks now[1]:
> 
> [1] https://share.riseup.net/#0bPgjUl5ggsRE7vZrO2Q1A

I think it would be better to use git commit diffs here because
  a) they're text
  b) changes are clearly traceable
  c) they don't expire

Now, I've been wondering: Why would you need to have an Ncurses-based
installer at all? Does it have any considerable advantage over using a
simple interactive shell script?


Best
Michael



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