Mr. Picklesworth
June 1st, 2006, 11:56 PM
I'll figure out how to submit feature suggestions eventually, but I think it's best to see what other people think about it before I complicate something else.
Besides, I don't like calling things feature suggestions... we'll call this a discussion of user-friendliness in installers.
I think a handy addition to Ubuntu would be for the installer to detect past installations and transfer the home folder to the new installation. (Thus keeping intact old documents).
This could be a very user-friendly addition, and I'm sure it would be worthwhile!
That, of course, could be a bit tricky to do, since the old partition would theoretically be gone by the point that the new home folder is created... so another possibility would be for the installer to have an option for immeadiately dumping the Home folder into its own special partition which could persist throughout installations of Ubuntu.
Any thoughts or loud exclamations of "Picklesworth, you idiot!" are welcome :)
Edit:
Nah, I didn't forget to back up my home folder
...I just didn't bother to do it then later realized that I had, in fact, done some stuff in Ubuntu which I never backed up.
(So it wasn't a mistake... I never make mistakes :P)
Besides, I don't like calling things feature suggestions... we'll call this a discussion of user-friendliness in installers.
I think a handy addition to Ubuntu would be for the installer to detect past installations and transfer the home folder to the new installation. (Thus keeping intact old documents).
This could be a very user-friendly addition, and I'm sure it would be worthwhile!
That, of course, could be a bit tricky to do, since the old partition would theoretically be gone by the point that the new home folder is created... so another possibility would be for the installer to have an option for immeadiately dumping the Home folder into its own special partition which could persist throughout installations of Ubuntu.
Any thoughts or loud exclamations of "Picklesworth, you idiot!" are welcome :)
Edit:
Nah, I didn't forget to back up my home folder
...I just didn't bother to do it then later realized that I had, in fact, done some stuff in Ubuntu which I never backed up.
(So it wasn't a mistake... I never make mistakes :P)