[Pcbsd-developer] Comments on the system installer

[Charles A. L. <lan...@gm...>]

Luis Alberto, the Brazilian translator installed 1.2 recently and sent
me a few suggestions that we could have a look at for our new system
installer:

1. He liked the black splash screen with "PC-BSD" at the center of the screen.

2. Right after the splash screen, there is a blue-yellow-red-and-grey
sysinstall-like text-based screen that show a few options before
launching the installer(start graphical install; reset X to default
vesa driver; etc...). He suggested we keep the same look and feel as
the rest of the installer for more consistency. He found this option
screen a little primitive from a visual standpoint.

3. The screen where you select languages has a different look and feel
as the rest of the installer.

4. Where you select the HDD to install PC-BSD, if you select
"Customize DiskLabel", you can't go back if you change your mind. If
you don't want to customize DiskLabel anymore, the only way is
rebooting the computer.

5. Where you have to type your password, the sentence that says
passwords don't match is not visible enough and too far away from
where the user's eyes are focused.

6. After installation is done, the best thing would be to eject the
CD-ROM automatically instead of having to manually press the button of
the CD-ROM drive.

7. When you choose to install the additional languages, the buttons of
the wizard aren't translated, while the rest of the wizard is in
Brazilian Portuguese.

8. When you load KDE, there is the KDE splash screen that seems to be
the only piece of KDE that wasn't branded to PC-BSD, we might think
about branding it too. He suggested just keeping the loading icons and
text. I think a nice PC-BSD splash screen for KDE would be nice :)

9. Last, but not least, he suggested that the user could choose his
native language in the very beginning of the installation process like
on SuSE and Ubuntu.

-- 
Charles A. Landemaine.