From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) Error/Info/Warning event dialogs should be standardised in the installer, with the following featues include. These improvements I believe would increase the usuability of the installer. My suggests for the error/info/warning dialog... Then the user is provided a dialog which (a)ALWAYS includes a simplified message. Simple and short so a newbie would understand. (b)ALWAYS includes a standard icon symbolizing the severity of the error/warning/info event. In the case of the text (ncurses) install, the icon can be replaced by a standard header or something stating the severity. (c)ALWAYS includes a 'DETAILS...' option. This option would give a more detailed description of the error if available, or a standard explaination of what could have caused the error. (d)SHOULD include an 'ABORT operation/installation' option if the error can possibly be unrecoverable. That would cover most errors and a few warnings too. 'ABORT operation' would allow the user to skip that part of install and continue if possible, 'ABORT installation' whould end the install process. (e)if the the ABORT option is selected the user is ALWAYS given the choice to cancel the ABORT. (f)ALWAYS provide a default course of action that the installer programmer feels usually is the correct course of action, or can determine to be the correct course of action from the install info. This default action can be the choice currently given to users as their only choice today, eg. RETRY on some cd rom errors. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.? 2. 3. Actual Results: The dialogs from the installer sometimes give enough information, but not always, and is confusing at times. I hope my suggestions are seen as improvements Expected Results: The installer's gui messages should be uniform, identifying the severity of the event, and a brief simple summary of the event. A option for a more detailed description of the event should be present. This dialog should give the user the choices listed in the description, as well as a default selection.
We will consider your recommendations for a future release. Thanks for your suggestions...this really helps us build a better product.
I think there are some valid points here, but we have higher priority issues to deal with right now. Deferring.
Deferred to future release.
Fixing bug status- sorry for the email.