Re: Configuration

I've been trying to find some time to sit down and put an interface on paper
for gpe-setup, but I've been on several short vacations lately which require I
spend 10-12 hours at work when I'm not away to catch up or to get work done
before I go. Anyway, I should have a couple of weeks starting this Monday to
finally get started on the interface and probably code up a prototype. I've
never coded for such a small area of screen before, so I'll probably have to
have some of you test out my interface for usability.

Quoting Moray Allan <moray@sermisy.org>:

> Earlier today I tested a clean install of Familiar 0.5.2, for once
> bothering to note down the things that didn't work smoothly. Obviously
> that's mostly a matter for the main Familiar list.
>
> However, I did realise that a few of the problems aren't things that
> can
> be neatly fixed in the current Familiar set up - you really want to be
> able to get user input during installation, especially when it comes to
> setting up a network connection. (Even if you're using PPP, where setup
> can largely be done remotely, you still need to be able to specify a
> nameserver to use.) To get user input on machines like the iPAQ you
> really need a GUI running.
>
> That all suggests to me:
>
> - That we should make sure that all necessary configuration to get
> network connections going, etc. can be done easily through GPE. We
> mostly already knew this, but the extra point I'm making is that in the
> same way as gpe-login already lets you create a new user account we
> should watch for unconfigured machines and offer to help get networking
> going etc. (Touchscreen calibration also needs to be offered on
> machines
> where it's appropriate, before we can expect the user to be able to do
> anything else at all in X.)
>
> - That it would be useful to make available base images including the
> base GPE packages. (Presumably to make these useful we'd want them to
> be
> pointed to, and ideally produced, by distribution installation guides,
> rather than just having them on the GPE site?)
>
> As ever, I'm quite happy to help in any of the work I'm asking for, but
> I'm posting this before I forget about it; on Friday I'm going off to
> Iceland for 10 days.
>
> --
> Moray
>
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