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Bug 745291 - [RFE] Present a catalogue of installer/live medias
[RFE] Present a catalogue of installer/live medias
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-boxes
Classification: Applications
Component: installer
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: --
Assigned To: GNOME Boxes maintainer(s)
GNOME Boxes maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2015-02-27 16:35 UTC by Alberto Ruiz
Modified: 2018-01-11 10:13 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Attachments
Mockup of the proposed idea. (47.76 KB, image/svg+xml)
2015-02-27 16:35 UTC, Alberto Ruiz
Details

Description Alberto Ruiz 2015-02-27 16:35:24 UTC
Created attachment 298100 [details]
Mockup of the proposed idea.

Attached is a mockup for a proposal on how the catalogue would look like. The idea is to save the user the additional steps.

Some things to consider:
- Default catalogue. If it'd up to me I'd offer these with the most common/supported variants:
  * Fedora
  * Ubuntu
  * CentOS
  * Debian
  * FreeBSD

- Customized catalogues. An organization might want to have their own catalog for their users, it's worth thinking about how can we provide additional or overriding catalogues to the default one without having to repackage Boxes.

- I would merge this with the URL based image selection so no need for an additional section in the UI.

- Caching. It'd be very handy to have a cache of the most common images, the tricky bit is how to allow the user to manage this cache so that they can effectively take control over how much space they have available.

The mockup is intended to act as a wireframe I quickly put together, I'd love to have feedback from the design team on interaction and actual vusial design.
Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2016-06-03 15:56:06 UTC
I would really like to have something like this. Completion in the url field is really not how I would expect to have well-known options presented.
Comment 2 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-01-11 10:13:51 UTC
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