sysinstall non-USB mouse dialog confusing
David O'Brien
obrien at freebsd.org
Sun May 11 18:13:26 PDT 2003
On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 06:34:17PM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> >Well, I would disagree that USB mice aren't much more common nowadays, but
> >the other line of reasoning that I neglected to make explicity in my post
> >is that OTHER usb devices are becoming much more common as well, and there
> >is not currently an "enable usb support" dialog in sysinstall other than
> >the very confusing one for mice. Therefore, I think the more generalized
> >wording below is more suitable.
...
> How about a compromise? Change "Do you have a non-USB mouse attached"
> to "Do you have a USB mouse attached". Leaving the default answer to
> 'no' means that users that don't read well get dumped into the moused
> dialog, which is probably ok. Dunno.
I think DoubB is correct -- we should have a more generic "Do you have
any USB devices" question. I still think the mouse question should
specifically state "PS/2 or serial mouse" -- that is really what is being
processed there.
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