Talk:Pimp My Installer

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According to discussions on the IRC, this mockup might not be possible to create with the current Qt3 interface, but would need Qt4.

Why do you say that?

XWindows are opaque, does Qt4 help on that?

Alpha rendering seems to be a 3rd class on Qt3, but QPixmaps do support it... In any case, what we want is 3 backgrounds -- either pre-rendered or just 1 and then do some treatment on it on initialization at run-time -- and we use them to give the transparency effect. Maybe we can even use XSetWindowBackgroundPixmap() for tiling relatively to (0,0)?

The dialogs may give some work, depending on what people have in mind.

--Rpmcruz 19:49, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

Very nice look on the green installer window! I am glad SUSE is pushing back to the green, I don't think I've ever seen a blue chamemleon. Anyways, the one suggestion I do have is to not use the map. Fedora uses it, and it causes a headache because the nearest city is not always the correct time zone. I, for example, pick Chicago while I live in South Dakota. I was surprised Minneapolis wasn't an option. Daylight savings time is not a standard in the US. Some states use it and others don't. I've noticed while using SUSE my time stays correct, while using Fedora it sometimes sets my clock an hour off. The best way to make the local settings correct is to have the current system of selecting language, keyboard, time zone, and then possibly offer another field for DST with the default date in the field already.

--amplifiedcomputers 14 August 2007

I do think this is in the right direction of where the YaST installer should be going. Perhaps we should look to the Mandriva and Fedora installers: they get the job done easily while still giving the user much control. Look is important too. I popped a 8.2 disc in my computer the other day, just to see if it would work ;), and the installer actually looked better and more professional than 10.2/.3! Thanks Kdupuy9 02:04, 20 October 2007 (UTC)