Ubuntu installer semantics problem
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: ubiquity
Since ver 6.06 Dapper Drake to present ver 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon T2
The install program needs revamping, you go from what language to install, to timezones, then backup to keyboard layout. That is like telling someone to put their pants on, then put their socks on, then button their pants and zip their fly. Not a logical progression! Next we come to the partitions, this is good, the partition mngr starts, scans your partitions and ask how you would like to proceed. You make your choice[mine is always manual] then it scans the disks again, you make another choice, another scan, etc! Redundancy is good to a certain extent, but can become overdone. I think this could be streamlined somewhat. I'm not a programmer, my brain wont grasp it[double dratt], just an end user.
| Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote | #1 |
I am not concerned about the ordering allegedly not being logical. The reason it is like that is that the city you select on the location page is used to infer both your country and your timezone, and then the most likely keyboard layout is deduced from your country. This is perfectly normal and logical.
The remainder of your bug report is bug 113715, so I'm marking it as a duplicate.