On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 07:17:38 -0600 Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 5:04 AM, Dieter Plaetinck <dieter@plaetinck.be> wrote:
On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 23:31:20 -0600 "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
Listmates,
New drive for my laptop so I dedicated it to Arch. Net install with 2009.08 went fine (although there really should be a warning when you leave install WITHOUT configuring the bootloader). [the /arch/setup menu autoadvances when you leave Configure System and if you click Done and downarrow anticipating moving to the next item, you can easily miss configuring the bootloader (I did ;-)]
arch is not, was not and will never be a hand-holding distro. if anyone doesn't pay attention and just skips steps it's that persons own problem imho. (in fact the interactive installer already does too much handholding)
So he maybe came up with an answer to the wrong problem. Problem as stated: "there really should be a warning when you leave install WITHOUT configuring the bootloader" and problem as I read it from the context: "the installer auto-advances so it is really easy to hit quit on accident if you were expecting to have to hit down and enter"
You can't possibly justify the second stated problem as a hand-holding mistake, unless you mean we shouldn't even auto-advance. A simple confirm quit dialog would solve the issue here as people would quickly realize they missed a step.
-Dan
well, even if you didn't expect the auto-advance behavior, i still expect users to read the name of the option before they activate it. trying to detect/recover from silly user errors such as not doing that is what i call hand-holding. that said, a simple confirmation dialog would add only 1 line of code, so if someone sends the patch (or files a feature request) it can be done. Dieter