"Tick this box to install ..." is misleading

[Luca Ferretti]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

Honestly, I can't understand what will happen choosing to activate the "Tick this box to install software for this functionality". I'm updating a book about Ubuntu for the Italian market and I founf myself unable to explain to first time users what they should expect choosing this option

The label above it speaks about mp3, flash, wifi and other. The label below refers to mp3 only. The checkbox label says "this functionality" (which one?) and not "those functionalities".

If you are going to install only MP3 codecs, then please use something like "Install software to play MP3 music files" or similar.

If you are going to install several non-free packages, then keep the long label above, use as checkbox label something like "Install software to provide those extra functionality" and add a "More details" link/button to provide the exact list of packages.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: ubiquity 2.3.17
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-20.29-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-20-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Sep 10 21:55:22 2010
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha i386 (20100910)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity

[Luca Ferretti (elle.uca)]

> If you are going to install several non-free packages, then keep the long label above,
> use as checkbox label something like "Install software to provide those extra functionality"
> and add a "More details" link/button to provide the exact list of packages.

Typo, sorry. It should be "those extra functionalities", plurals

[Milo Casagrande (milo)]

From a translation POV, what exactly has been changed? We are already past string freeze.

Thanks.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

ubiquity (2.3.18) maverick; urgency=low

  [ Evan Dandrea ]
  * Improve the text on the prepare page, based on input from Matthew
    Paul Thomas, Amanda Brock, and Andrew Sinclair
    (LP: #635269, LP: #635260).
  * Translate latitude and longitude from the Geonames service to its
    respective Olsen timezone database entry.
  * Add back the hostname entry (LP: #628087).
  * Use a block device icon for cases where we cannot detect the
    operating system on a partition.
  * Set the amount of used space on a partition that we presume contains
    no operating system (LP: #626299).
  * Make requiring a password to log in the default again, matching the
    behavior in the previous version of Ubuntu.
  * Use the correct string for the resize partition option.
  * Set the size of the disk on the automatic partitioning page
    (LP: #626299).
  * Use dmidecode to get a more unique suffix for the hostname
    (LP: #628087).
  * Also generate a sample hostname when generating a sample username
    (LP: #634279).
  * Only set the next button to 'Install Now' when not on the first
    partitioning page (LP: #636392).
  * Fix transposed latitude and longitude in geonames lookup.
  * Provide a version parameter to the geoname lookup.
  * Show the number of partitions that will be deleted when in 'use
    entire disk' mode.
  * Remove Pango markup from the debconf templates where possible.
  * Properly set the partition widget description label.
  * Use a GtkMenuBar rather than a GtkMenu as the source of the dark
    styling to match recent changes to the default theme.
  * Properly start a ConsoleKit session (LP: #631538).
  * Fix the spacing on the automatic partitioning page.
    gui/gtk/stepPartAuto.ui
  * Correct layout based on suggestions from Matthew Paul Thomas.
  * Correct layout on keyboard guesser.
  * Run the Jockey backend with an in-memory debconf database, and run
    the frontend asynchronously (LP: #627822).
  * Don't show the GTK frontend until it's done constructing the UI.
  * Show a spinning cursor on the X root window in addition to the
    ubiquity window, so it's clear that the installer is loading the
    next page even when the cursor is off the main window.
  * Make return_to_partitioning work with parallel debconf instances
    (LP: #637706).
  * Added a Windows icon for the resize widget. Thanks Otto Greenslade!
  * Disable the alpha warning, albeit late.
  * Add a command line option to not install a bootloader
    (-b, --no-bootloader) (LP: #615033).
  * Do not show 'free space' partitions in the bootloader target
    combobox (LP: #615033).
  * Meet the Geonames.org CC license requirements by adding 'Geonames.org'
    to the map.
  * Install the restricted package independent of the apt-installed
    packages, since those are installed with just the live CD's
    sources.list (LP: #638073).
  * Disable the wireless plugin for now. It's not ready for release.
  * Make use of the new connectivity check page.
  * Automatic update of included source packages: apt-setup
    1:0.45ubuntu2, hw-detect 1.73ubuntu5.

  [ Mario Limonciello ]
  * Restore the functionality of the noninteractive frontend.
  * Disable GVFS fuse dae...

[Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan)]

Cool, nice to see such a high reactivity so close to the release!