Re: SEUL: TurboLinux

[lso8219@cs.rit.edu (Loren S Osborn)]

> Then the user figures something's wrong with his computer.  Significant
> frustration ensues...  Remember, the lot that'll be using are the sorts
> that flood computer companies with Telephone calls asking where the 'any'
> key is...  Often, if you put in something like "A small dialog box will
> come up every so often to indicate a required package is being installed,
> if the box is red in colour that means a package over xxxMegabytes is
> being installed.", you will call after call asking why this little dialog
> box keeps coming up and why it's sometimes red.  TTYL!
> 
>                         Paul Anderson

<humor>
Why don't we just put "Don't Panic!" in Large friendly letters on the top of
each dialog box?
</humor>

Seriously though,  we should notify the user what's going on, but not
give them cryptic color codes that have meening only to us developers.
I suggest something like:

<Dialog box>
The package that you have requested, <pkg name>, requires package 
<pkg a> to function.  I happen to have a copy dated <pkg a date> on the
SEUL CD-ROM.  This package requires <pkg a size> (bytes/K/MB/?GB?) of space
on it's target partition.  That partition has <disk free> (same units) 
availible.  I can:

A) Abort installation of <pkg name>

B) install <pkg a> from CD-ROM

C) try to find a newer version of <pkg a> on-line, and install it.

D) give you a more detailed explanation.

choice?
</Dialog box>

I don't think I like the paragraph format, but I think some variation on the
theme would be good.

Loren
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