Re: Design Questions

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 11:59 -0500, David Cantrell wrote:
> Agreed.  I'd like the network configuration stage of anaconda to be 
> supplemented with a screen before it that asks "Would you like to enable 
> NetworkManager?" accompanied by a description of network manager and the 
> benefits and such.  If the user selects yes, it skips of the network 
> configuration screen.  If they select no, we go to the network 
> configuration screen.  I have it on a to do list somewhere.

I'd far rather just enable NetworkManager -- let's figure out the case
of things that you can currently do with the anaconda UI that don't work
with NetworkManager, fix them, and then stop trying to pretend.  Pushing
the question to the user is entirely the wrong answer.[1]  There's no
way you can provide sufficient information for them to make an educated
decision here.

Jeremy

[1] We'll still want to keep most of the configuration via kickstart as
that's somewhat important.  And it's possible that we also keep the
screen around if you're building a non-NetworkManager-enabled
(legacy :-) distribution.