UX/Installation

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SUSE Installation Design

Desired installer attributes

1. Easy to use
2. Quick installation time
3. Pleasing look and feel

Personas & goals

FIXME

Shared installation goals

The #1 goal of anyone using the installation software is to have a functional and useful computer (with SUSE installed) when the installation is complete.

Installation Scenarios

• Desktop installation
  • Empty hard drive
  • Adding SUSE as an additional operating system
    • Windows on the entire drive is the most typical case
• Install SUSE as a server
• Unattended installations

Operating system installation comparison

• openSUSE 10.2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
• Ubuntu 6.10
• Microsoft Windows Vista Business Edition

Brainstorming

• Martin's ideas & mockups ("pimp my installer")
• Setting systemproperties (Timezone, Users etc.) during the copy-process on harddrive(s) (multitasking)
• Show hints (like them on after-startup in KDE) during the copy-process (, specially for newbies and OS-changer) like: "Do you know...: with samba you can connect your SuSE-PC with other Windows PC's. For more information click here..."
• What's about to play "light" games like chess, sodoku and cardgames during the copy-process in a window??? To don't let you feel the real time for the installation...