Re: Come back and graphical installer

[swedebugia]

Hi :)

On 2018-11-19 03:10, Mathieu Othacehe wrote:
> Hi Thorsten,

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> > "Keyboard model selection":
> >
> > Hmm, Ubuntu's graphical installer gets away with just layout and
> > variant, no mention of model. Some graphical installers have a test
> > box and/or a detection scheme (asking the user to press certain keys).
>
> Well now "pc105" is the standard and other models are mostly relics from
> the past. I think I'll just assume the model to be pc105 and let user
> select a layout and variant then.

Sounds good. The manual install is for all the special weird cases.

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> > "User selection":
> >
> > This could start right in "User creation" for the first, required
> > user. Actually, I wonder if the installer should even offer creation
> > of several users? In general, don't do what can easily be done after
> > installation.
>
> Well I was hesitating too as multiple user adds complexity to the
> form. What do other people think, one or multiple users selection :)?

Single user is preferred.
You can hide al the group name and stuff too and just focus on the username.

Ubuntu makes it possible to choose a hostname. I never used that to 
anything so I would just set it to the username or just "guixsd".

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Cheers Swedebugia