Some suggestion of hoary snapshot install

[Xan]

> > <cjwatson at ubuntu.com>>) va escriure:
> > > That could be done fairly easily by having "English translations" of
> > > those strings; in other words, mark those strings as translatable in
> > > debconf and create an en.po that translates "radeon" to "ATI Radeon",
> > > etc. I can help with this if need be.
> >
> > It could be difficult because several videocards have the same driver,
> > isn't? But the idea promises...
>
> That's exactly the trouble with your suggestion.  The list is long enough,
> and if we start including brand names of video cards, it would be many
> times longer.


For that I suggest to pass from this technical names screen to two screens: 
one for manufacturer name and one for model name. So with that, we don't 
select "radeon" name in one screen. Instead of that, we choose "ATI" in 
manufacturer screen and "Radeon 9200" in the model screen. Internally ubuntu 
installer knows that "ATI" + "Radeon 9200" = "radeon" driver.

But the trouble with that is that the same videocard could work with several 
drivers. For example ATI Radeon 9200 could works with radeon, ati, vesa and 
fb. So the assignation is not univoque and so ubuntu installer have not easy 
work to selecting what driver choose for ATI Radeon 9200 from avaliable 
drivers (and if it have easy work, some (expert) people perhaps wants to run 
ATI Radeon 9200 with some specific drivers (fb instead of radeon for 
example)).

I think a lot of that and perhaps the best solution I think is:

1) First translate the technical names to more large technical names.
For example translate "fb" to "Framebuffer (fb)", .... This is optional.

2) Near the name, put a button of "information/help". When we press that 
button, appears a dialog with information of all videocard that could work 
with that driver.

Graphically, now we have:

[I don't know the exact phrases]

"Choose the driver you want to choose in X window system:

            -i810
            -radeon
            -vesa
            -fb
            -vmware
            -ati
"

We could have:

"Choose the driver you want to choose in X window system:

            -i810                                             [Info]
            -radeon                                        [Info]
            -vesa                                            [Info]
            -fb                                                 [Info]
            -vmware                                      [Info]
            -ati                                                [Info]
"

When we press [info] button for "ati", appears a dialog like:

"This driver could use for these videocards:
              -PowerColor
              -Saphire
              -Gigabyte,
              -Radeon 9200 (better choose radeon driver)

"


What do you think?
Perhaps you could pick some idea for that.

With all my regards,
Xan.