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Idea #10537: Multiple Users at Install

Written by lunarcloud the 30 Jun 08 at 21:20. Related project: Live CD installer. Status: New
Rationale
If we really want to make (K/X)Ubuntu for the layperson, then we need to be able to set up more than one user account during the installation.

Families won't like (K/X)Ubuntu if they can't make all their own personal user accounts from the get-go.

Right now, to install (K/X)Ubuntu for multiple users, you have to set one up, then log in, add a new user, and go through the process of setting of group permissions mirroring that of the first user. This is NOT intuitive.

This is what the setup looks like (KDE-wise),
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lunarcloud_88/2879394590/
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3085/2879394590_412e183a17_o.png

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Solution #1: Add a user list to the new user page
Written by lunarcloud the 30 Jun 08 at 21:20.
Here is an good mock-up, feel free to post your mock-ups:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lunarcloud_88/3344450719/
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3344/3344450719_ec59c93e1f_o.jpg

The user icon can be selected (gdm/kdm should set icon source to "user,admin")

You can add a user, and the computer name is a seperated entity, automatically defined by the FIRST user's name, but obviously changeable as before.


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animaniac wrote on the 30 Jun 08 at 22:10
this could be made very simply by adding "add another user" option to where one fills in the details for the first.
+1

snadrus wrote on the 30 Jun 08 at 22:58
Then you need a user management screen.

The less in the installer the better b/c:
A. You don't want people getting dependent on the installer to do everything for them. (One tool, not two== Ubuntu design)
B. If it breaks here, they don't have a working system.

droetker wrote on the 1 Jul 08 at 06:47
nonono. "The less the better" is old-GNOME-style. This doesn't work if your system doesn't do what YOU want.
so +1

Hiéroglyphe wrote on the 1 Jul 08 at 07:04
I'm with snadrus on this one: please keep the installation process easy.

There is already a "you can add extra users later" text during installation.

But maybe this can be done *after*, on the first boot when an Ubuntu tutorial shows up to help newbie. Then we can have a small section explaining how to had extra users.

andruk (Idea reviewer) wrote on the 1 Jul 08 at 15:44
When you setup the first user, couldn't you just have a small button at the bottom that says "Add another user"? That way, the installation is still simple for converts, but still useful for power users. Simplicity != dumb (at least it shouldn't, even though it ends up beings that way many times And yes, it would have to be thoroughly tested if it's in the installer. Get Debian to maintain it, or schedule it for 9.04 (Jumping Jimminies or something).

Telling end users that they have to do simple things in different places is not "simple", in my humble opinion. Try to keep things as simple (ie: organized) as possible. Setting up multiple users is fairly basic as far as the end user is concerned, and since you're already setting up one user, you might as well set them all up.

In short, simplicity is complicated. ;-)

+1, Useful

lunarcloud wrote on the 24 Mar 09 at 19:25
Changed the look of the mockup to actually be user friendly. Consider that when looking at above comments.

lunarcloud wrote on the 8 Jul 09 at 21:22
Oh, and I looked at the situation.

I still like my idea, but the Gnome user management is a LOT simpler than in KDE. There's no way to make a "default" user in kuser, only a barebones one. The gnome user management supports a profile for a generic user.


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