Switch 'prepare' and 'wifi' steps

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement]

ubiquity 2.9.28 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question], Ubuntu 12.04 beta

Currently the 'prepare' step does network detection and propose an option to download updates from the network. But it the system uses a wireless card and is not connected, the wifi setup is the next step forcing to go back run 'prepare' again and select the download option.

having 'wifi' before 'prepare' would make more sense.

<http://goo.gl/0lNf4>: "If you chose 'Install Ubuntu' and the computer is not connected to the Internet, the next step should be 'Connect to the Internet' ... If any [wi-fi cards] are turned on but all of those require a driver that isn’t currently installed, [it should include] the text 'To use wi-fi on this computer, Ubuntu needs to install proprietary wi-fi driver software.', and an 'Install Driver Now' button, that — if you click it — changes to the text 'Installing…' and a progress bar."

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Switching the steps is one possible solution to the problem, but not the only one.

The problem, to restate, is that "Download updates while installing" is insensitive when you don't have an Internet connection, even if you might have been able to set up a wi-fi connection in the next step.

Switching the steps would solve *that* problem, but it would introduce an equal and opposite problem: if you have proprietary-only wi-fi (e.g. Broadcom), you can't set up a wi-fi connection unless and until you have chosen to install the proprietary wireless driver, but that option would now be *after* the wi-fi connection details.

An alternative solution would be to move the "Download updates while installing" option somewhere after the "Connect to the Internet" step, while leaving the option for installing proprietary drivers before "Connect to the Internet".

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

I've changed the design as Jean-Baptiste suggested -- putting "Connect to the Internet" first, and including the option to install proprietary wireless drivers directly inside that step.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

We've missed the boat on this for quantal, sorry, being in UI freeze and this being a change with some potential for regressions. But we should really sort this out for R.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

... and bumping to S. Sorry.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 2.17.0

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ubiquity (2.17.0) trusty; urgency=low

  [ Aurélien Gâteau ]
  * Fix going back through skipped steps in kde_ui frontend.

  [ Dmitrijs Ledkovs ]
  * Switch "wireless" and "prepare" steps around (LP: #955232)
  * Don't read proc_cmdline twice (LP: #1213748)
  * Set wallpaper for 'feh' only, for others just assume gsettings schemes
    are correct.
  * Silence progress dots with invalid a11y (LP: #1154345)

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Automatic update of included source packages: choose-mirror 2.50ubuntu1,
    debian-installer-utils 1.100ubuntu1, netcfg 1.111ubuntu1,
    partman-auto-lvm 51ubuntu1, partman-crypto 63ubuntu1, preseed
    1.62ubuntu1.
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Tue, 29 Oct 2013 07:46:26 -0700