EFIs have a dedicated way to chose the OS

We can probably default to something safe/sane for elementary OS but we need to provide an override for other OSes as a build flag.

We should add back buttons to the panes to go to the previous pane. Since we are not going to re-show the issue detection screens, we know the order of the panes and can just hardcode it in each pane.

Back buttons should go to the left of the cancel button.

Right now any keyboard input is ignored in the language selector. We should allow you to type "en" to quickly select "English".

What it says on the tin

Because that's how we do

We want to use this view to:

1. List available drives,
2. Inform the user this will erase data from the drive, and
3. Require an affirmative action from the user to select the drive before they can proceed.

Even if the device only has one drive, we want to make have the user select it so they're explicitly telling us to erase that drive.

The "Erase and Install" button must be disabled until a drive is selected, and no drive should be selected by default.

At the moment the installer is offering to upgrade my Loki installation when it should be offering to re-install it. The copy we have in the doc is:

Reinstall
Reinstall a fresh copy of elementary OS without losing any of your data or settings.

The icon for this I think has been lost to time. So we could create a new system-os-reinstall or use something existing unsure.

Let's investigate if it's a viable solution

While open, the installer should inhibit sleep

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Would probably cut down the size of the list and make it easier to access languages. For example if we're sorting English to top now that's US, GB, Australian, Canadian, etc all at the top but compact.

Hello, when I tried to update the system or upgrade the archives to update the system, but it gave many failed downloads and some were forbidden because of security. Please check my file attached.

failed-downloads.txt

It turns out some people have lots of partitions :p

It should show the keyboard map for the selected layout

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I am interested in contributing to the installer. However, I do not want to actually run it on my computer, fearing that I might break it. What is the recommended way to test/develop the installer?

...with OS_NAME being the name of the OS from LSB.

when any part of ChoiceItem is clicked, it should toggle the radio button inside that choice item

Instead of having connect to DBus interfaces, use existing UDisks library, it has vapi for it, and is documented on valadoc:
http://www.valadate.org:8000/#!api=udisks2/UDisks
(the link won't work, but a simple search for udisks will do).

What happened:
I am planning to install elementary (for my wife) on a separate partition alongside my existing Arch/Antergos install.

I booted from the usb-key, selected "Install" and aborted the installer after selecting the "download updates during install" stage. (Forgot to backup something :-) )

After rebooting to antergos I found that the installer had changed the hostname on the arch root partition to "elementary".

Expected behaviour:
The installer should never touch the root partition of an existing linux (or other os) on the machine if I did not choose to delete it completely (exception: update grub).

The installer should not touch anything on the harddisk drive until all settings are made and I answer the last "are you sure?" question.

Question:
Can I install elementary on a seperate partition at all or do I have to expect it messes up my existing install?

The selected language should have a nice little selection check in the row like we do for the locale plug

Depends on elementary/icons#336

We should sort like the top 5 languages at the top of the language chooser. It would save time for the majority of our users. Maybe throw them up there in order of popularity then a separator then everything else in alphabetical order.

Right now installing graphics drivers is a pain, especially due to configuration changes. It would be nice if the installer could detected the GPU and give an option to install proprietary drivers out of the box. Expanding on this, it would be nice if we could install other drivers like networking on install.

I realize this overlaps with AppCenter and the drivers section. But this would help a lot with the out of box experience.

for reasons

In the spec, there's a comment that I think is correct. Adding "Use" doesn't really add any value. It just makes the list harder to scan and adds something else to translate.

what's on the tin. The installer claims it had a segfault

(gdb) run
Starting program: /home/daniel/Projects/pantheon-installer/build/pantheon-installer
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
[INFO 17:23:02.607996] Application.vala:155: Installer version: (null)
[INFO 17:23:02.608039] Application.vala:157: Kernel version: 4.4.0-45-generic
[New Thread 0x7fffe88aa700 (LWP 26739)]
[New Thread 0x7fffe3fff700 (LWP 26740)]
[New Thread 0x7fffe0c66700 (LWP 26742)]

Thread 1 "pantheon-instal" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x000000000040dd75 in installer_language_view_row_selected ()
(gdb)

We need to be able to choose a keyboard layout for the live session and to set the default for the installed system. This should come right after the language screen.

By default Ubuntu will be use swapfiles instead of creating traditional swap partitions. It will no more than 5% of free disk space or 2GiB, whichever is lower. Apparently it's a good idea.

Do the side-by-side thing since we have a long scrollable list.

Something akin to https://packaging.neon.kde.org/neon/settings.git/plain/usr/share/pixmaps/neon.png so that it shows this instead of the default linux tux icon during the install process.

edit: to clarify, i meant the icon to show the list of existing operating systems already installed.

Since this will be in a live session, you should be able to close the installer. When it should be un-closable, we should make the close button insensitive.

A lot of times, when you install alongside different OS, the grub won't be updated, and you will be straight booted into elementary OS without a grub display. The installer should do that automatically, so users don't need to execute any "update-grub" commands on their system.

• Remove Mint because it doesn't get used
• Use Sam's macOS logo instead of the Apple Logo
• Make sure these all use the correct canvas size that we intend to display them at
• Consider flattening Tux to fit in

Pull it into the abstract view class as a boolean property

The first screen is currently the language selection. It might be nice to have a welcome page first with a simple blue elementary logo, the text "elementary OS", a short welcome text and a single "Begin Installation" button.

Might I suggest the short welcome text be the following line from your website?

"A fast and open replacement for Windows and macOS"

Even though the user might previously select from a boot menu options like "try elementary OS" and "install elementary OS" (she has alread indicated to start the installer) - it would still be nice to have this start page.

Show the distributor logo, a progress bar, and a dim-label with a terminal icon to reveal terminal output up over the logo.

The logo should have a uniquely-targetable style class, plus something like .percent-75 where 75 is the percent of the installation progress. This could be useful to distributors as a hook for CSS animations to brand the experience without resorting to a video or webview.

Not sure how or why, but I only get UK, Canada, and Australia for English options

I stumbled across Calamares, a installer framework, I had a look at the code, and it seems to me elementary OS could be integrated into the code to make a installer.

I tried to look at the ubiquity code to see what could be put into the Calamares modules but ubiquity is a mess :L

https://github.com/calamares/calamares

I know @jackpot51's code is 👌 but in case something goes wrong and the installation can't proceed, we should have an error view designed. Probably just similar to the success view.

We should try and use GeoClue to bubble the relevant languages to the top; we don't need an Internet connection if GeoClue can use other signals to determine a "precise enough" location. And we can't connect to the Internet first anyway since language selection must be first.

We should name our views in the stack more consistently; with underscores and matching the views. I.e. success_view, progress_view, etc.

Based on the selection of the language from the previous screen

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We should show a title ("Installed elementary OS"), large green check icon, copy that says something along the lines of "Your device will restart in 30 seconds to set up a new user.", then then a suggested action of "Restart" and a secondary action of "Shut Down".

Because the title is packed into a grid with column_homogeneous. This needs to be centered without requiring all of the widgets in this container to grow their allocations as well

Not supposed to have a parent-less dialog. Instead we should make it a window with flat, rounded, and default-decoration style classes.

During a dual-boot installation on a MacBook, it would be insanely awesome if the installer could detect the existence of a Macintosh partition, and then from there automatically add the .icc color profiles from 'Macintosh HD > Library > ColorSync > Profiles > Displays'

currently it looks like elementary OS is hardcoded

Right now, if you install elementary twice on the same partition, two EFI entries are present