On 2 April 2014 11:16, Vikram Goyal <vikigoyal(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I am using fedora or rather redhat based distribution since there
was
Redhat 5 ( probably in middle ninteies or something )
As far as I can tell the disk partitioning scheme under F1/20 definetly
needs some kind of rework to make it unambigious to users.
The developers must understand one thing from user's perspective that:
1} The systems being installed are mostly dual boot having other
OSes &/Or partitions, already having precious data in them.
2} The users are always jittery if they do not fully understand where
the whole thing is leading to, especially in regard to partioning.
So a bit of more verbosity & transparency of what exactly the
installer is doing will go a long way in mitigating the user's
complaints.
3} Developers have built the UI & know its INs & OUTs. If they try to
use the UI 'as a user', it will always lead to false analysis because
their knowledge will always warp the UI experience & they will always
make the right decisions even if those decisions are the most
difficult. So in order to understand the UI from a User's Perspective
they should always listen to users & give weightage to their
complaints because that is exactly what the UI is delivering & not
what the developers are thinking.
But then point 3 goes for all the UI in place be it installer or full
fledged Desktop GUI. In case of installer, it just becomes a very dicey
from the user's point of view with so much at stake & so little
information.
Developers must understand that even if what appears to be a very dumb
question/complaint, it actually is not dumb but just plain ambigiousness
in UI. Confusion mostly arises from inadequate info where decision making
is required, which is amply available with the developers but to the
users, due to bad UI.
I entirely concur. (Personally, the oldest version I used was Red Hat
4.2 on an old SPARCstation I used to have.)
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