Hello everyone,
A few months back, I decided to change the label "Boot to Desktop" to
"Try out Haiku", as I believed that it would've been more descriptive as
far as its function is concerned.
I was talking with some people in a voice chat channel, and a person was
messing around with QEMU-based virtualization on their iPad tablet.
During that call, I was indeed told that the "Try out Haiku" label
actually made much more sense, however, I seemed to have missed an
important detail, as I actually had to explain this in the call: The
system does not indicate whether or not the 'live session' running off
the USB is persistent, and that the Installer won't boot up the next
time around. I think that the verb "Try" is still good for that matter,
because it insinuates that this is something like a test drive, and that
maybe it would be a better idea to install the system, because using the
USB as your system is not something that should be permanent, as in for
"daily computing purposes".
I'm not sure if it would be a good idea to open a new window and explain
to the user that the instance of Haiku they're using is running off
their installation media, that the Installer won't open again the next
time the user decides to boot the machine for convenience and that the
Installer will remain available at any given time.
It's just that I've heard that "popups are horrible UX" from another
person in the Haiku community, but I'm not sure what else I could
possibly try (this is what makes the most sense to me), so I was
wondering if anyone had a better idea. I'll try to implement the
solution in a few months, as I'm currently taking some time off due to
my studies.
With regards,
Panos
