John on S8

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 09:22:08PM +0800, John wrote:

> I think hiding the grub menu a mistake, and I thought the default delay 
> a little short.

We've increased the timeout once already (from 2 seconds to 3 seconds), and
while I agree that _when you want it_ a longer timeout would be nice, most
users will never know that the grub menu exists, and a longer delay just
slows down their boot process.

I believe you can hold down the escape key rather than waiting for the
prompt to appear.

> I think hiding the menu a mistake because I've sometimes recognised that 
> the default was wrong.

Can you be more specific?

> User account
> I accidently typed "Summer" meaning "summer," and the "error" was not 
> reported to me until after I had supplied the password.
> 
> I'm not sure that "Summer" really is invalid. I can imagine it would 
> cause problems with email, but I think it should work aside from that. 
> Certainly, useradd is fine with it:

It's not invalid, but it would be rather confusing to the uninitiated, since
the tools are case-sensitive.

Yes, the error should be reported immediately, rather than after reading the
password as well.  Please file a bug (severity minor) about that.

> However, that's a minor point; what irritated me was its description as an
> error.

Perhaps you can suggest alternate text for the error.  We won't be changing
it for the Warty release because it would be disruptive for the translated
messages, but we will certainly be considering these issues for Hoary.

> The assumption computers clocks are set to UTC is unsound.

The defaults are oriented toward a system where Ubuntu is the only installed
operating system (hence the "erase entire disk" default as well), where UTC
is a reasonable choice.

> Why ask about configuring ppp during boot? We're installing from CD.

Agreed, we shouldn't be asking this question when installing from CD.
Colin, is this trivial to fix?

> First login.
> I logged in with my own account and had a look around.
> Screen res is 1024x768 which suits Mrs S (but not me).

Is your hardware capable of higher resolution?  If so, that would imply that
the autodetection probe was not successful, and there may be a bug report in
it.  I'm attaching instructions for how to test.  Is this a CRT or an LCD?

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 - mdz
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