Bug 1105650

Summary:	Installation: "User Interface" selection usability improvements
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE Tumbleweed	Reporter:	Lenz Grimmer <lgrimmer>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	YaST Team <yast-internal>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Minor
Priority:	P3 - Medium	CC:	ancor, jreidinger
Version:	Current
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
URL:	https://trello.com/c/lea35Iy1
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Description Lenz Grimmer 2018-08-22 14:49:57 UTC

I just started an installation from scratch using the openSUSE-Tumbleweed-NET-x86_64-Snapshot20180818-Media.iso image on a physical server.

The installation step "User Interface" asks me to "Select a system role" and provides me with the following choices:

* Desktop with KDE Plasma
* Desktop with GNOME
* Server
* Transactional Server
* Custom

I'm somewhat irritated by the options "Server" and "Transactional Server", as they don't really seem to be "User Interfaces" (rather the lack of any). Clicking "Help" opens a popup window with a wall of unformatted text (e.g. no line breaks between the title and descriptions of the various options).

My suggestions on how to improve this step:

The title of this installation step should probably be "Select System Role" instead of "User Interface"

The description of the various roles should be visible right below or next to the actual selection - it should not be necessary to click "Help" to understand the meaning of these.

If that's not possible, the help popup window should at least properly format the content instead of showing a "wall of text" without any formatting.

It should probably be clarified if the GNOME/KDE roles support these "transactional updates" as well.

Comment 1 Ancor Gonzalez Sosa 2019-12-02 12:26:36 UTC

The system role selection has been reworked to a big extend and it should be now free from all the reported problems. Check for example the "after" screenshot at the top of this post:

https://lizards.opensuse.org/2019/11/22/highlights-of-yast-development-sprints-88-and-89/

So closing this. Thanks for your interest, all the feedback we got about that screen was really appreciated and useful to reach the current status.