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I teach English in Italy, and the books we use come from the UK. The other day I was a bit surprised to read a sentence in "English Files" that went like this: "Do you hoot if the driver in front of you is slow?" (not "toot") I would have said "honk".Yes, cars in the UK hoot (among other sounds) and in the US they honk (among other sounds), and those are but a couple of examples of the arbitrariness of onomatopoeia (words whose sounds imitate what they refer to). "The arbitrariness of onomatopoeia?" I hear some of you thinking. "Surely not!" But I reply "Surely, surely."
Have you come across this?
Onomatopoeia is always raised by some student when I teach the notion of 'the arbitrariness of the sign'--i.e. the notion that there is no causal connection between the form of a sign (e.g. a word) and its meaning. For example, it's just a social convention that the word for that thing in the middle of your face is nose. You had to learn to associate that combination of sounds with that body part because there's no other way to know that those sounds symboli{s/z}e that thing. And people who speak Zulu had to learn to match a different set of sounds to that thing because there's nothing in nature forcing us to use those sounds for that thing.
But surely, my student reasons, onomatopoeia does involve a natural relation between meaning and form (sound). We call the sound of a gun bang because guns go bang and so forth. Except, of course, that they don't. That's the way that the sound is represented in English, but in French it's pan (with the 'n' pronounced as nasali{s/z}ation on the vowel). And in Icelandic, apparently, it's búmm. While onomatopoeia is iconic, it still relies on the particular sounds that belong to one's language and it relies on some conventionali{s/z}ation. In English, our guns go bang and our bombs go boom because that's what we've learned from other English speakers, not just because that's what guns and bombs sound like. So there's some room for variation among languages, and even within languages, on onomatopoetic matters.
So it is with car horns. In both BrE and AmE, one might imitate the sound as beep, but (especially as verbs for making the sound) BrE likes hoot, which Americans reserve for owls, and toot too, and AmE likes honk (which can also be used for goose noises--OED marks this as 'orig. N. Amer.').
Here I must mention an absolutely charming website, bzzzpeek, on which children from around the world say the sounds of animals and vehicles. If you don't believe me on UK/US differences in onomatopoeia, check with the children. (The UK is the first country on each page, the US is the last--so it takes some clicking to get to.)
Here is a selection of onomatopoeia that I've come across in day-to-day existence. It's mostly come to the fore as Better Half and I clash in our sound effects for the song "Grover Murphy had a farm" (also "Grover Murphy had a bath", "Grover Murphy had some lunch" and anything else I can think to do sound effects for--but of course we use her real first and second name, which, as luck--or possibly careful onomastic planning--would have it, is metrically identical to "Grover Murphy" and "Old MacDonald").
donkeys: in AmE they say hee-haw, but in BrE eeyore--which is basically pronounced like hee-haw without the aitches (the penny drops for many Pooh fans--see the comments here)
frogs: the verb is to croak in both dialects, but in AmE (originally and chiefly, says OED) they say ribbit. This may have made it across the ocean now--Better Half was surprised to learn it's originally AmE, but the British bzzzpeek child has frogs saying croak croak.
emergency vehicles: in BrE children (or adults talking to children) sometimes call these nee-naws after the sound they make, which (traditionally) in Britain is a two-tone sound that's different from the sirens of the US (which are sometimes represented as woo-woo--but I've never heard that used as a noun to represent the vehicles, like nee-naw is). This one is not a case of the dialects representing the same sounds differently, but of having different sounds to represent. One might make the argument that hoot and honk are the same sort of thing--the British drive little cars that go hoot and Americans drive big ones that go honk. Except that the OED has BrE hoots and AmE honks back in the early 20th century, when the size of the cars would have been about the same in the two countries.
trains: we've already discussed the AmE origin of choo-choo and the BrE alternative puff-puff, which seems to be a bit old-fashioned now. BH doesn't use puff-puff, but does use (BrE) puffer train as an equivalent to (AmE) choo-choo train. Grover and I take the train to work/crèche, and as we wait for it, I find myself saying "Here comes the choo-choo train" then feeling ridiculous for doing so, since the train makes a kind of electric hum rather than anything 'puffy' or 'choo-choo-y'.
The thing that's struck me in thinking and talking to BrE speakers about these onomatopoetic items is that the American ones are mostly well-known here, but few people seem to reali{s/z}e that they were originally AmE. Considering how much disdain is felt for some AmE words in BrE, it's interesting that this section of the vocabulary seems somewhat resistant to that kind of prejudice. Or have I just missed it? And have I missed more onomatopoetic differences?


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Personal Planner
Gifts of Cash
Many people use their annual gift exclusion as part of an overall estate planning strategy.
Sara: "We had a pretty good year this year. After all the financial changes last year, we decided it was a good time to be more careful. So we watched our budget, took a less expensive vacation, and we actually have substantial savings at the end of this year."
Jane: "Yes. Joe and I were also careful. We have been talking. After setting aside part of our cash savings, we could make some gifts this year. Next Tuesday, we're planning to meet with our tax advisor to discuss some gifts."
Sara: "Harry and I met with our advisor last week to talk about some end-of-year gifts. We plan to make some gifts to the children and also some gifts to charity."
Gifts to Children and Other Heirs
Sara is wise to consider gifts to children or other heirs. Because they have good income and sufficient assets for financial security, she and Harry can make gifts of up to $18,000 each to their children or other beneficiaries using their annual gift exclusions. Sara and Harry decide to make gifts to their two children. Based upon the $18,000 annual exclusion for two donors and two children, they could give up to $72,000 with no gift tax and no requirement to file a gift tax return.
One good strategy that many parents use is to make a gift of property and to save the cash for themselves. For example, if Sara and Harry own shares of public stock it makes good sense for them to make gifts of their appreciated stock to their children or other heirs. They can then invest the cash themselves and replace the gifted property.
There are two benefits for Sara and Harry if they make the gift of stock. First, the cost basis in the stock flows through to the children. If the children later sell the stock, they will pay the capital gains tax. However, Harry and Sara have avoided paying the tax themselves and recognition of the gain may be deferred for many years. Sara and Harry can place the cash in their investment fund and replace the stock given to children or other heirs.
Second, it frequently is desirable for children and other heirs to receive property rather than cash. Children tend to spend cash quickly for consumer items. Harry and Sara would like their children to learn to save and invest. A gift of stock is much more likely to lead the children to follow the "save and invest" example of Harry and Sara.
Gifts to Charity
Both Sara and Jane are considering gifts to charity. It is a good time for them to consider a cash gift. Because they were careful in budgeting this year, both Sara and Jane have a greater opportunity to make a substantial cash gift this year.
Making a cash gift is quite easy. You can simply write a check to your favorite charity. But it is important to make sure that you follow the requirements of the IRS in order to receive your appropriate tax savings for your gift.
Cash Gifts and the IRS
A cash gift saves tax at your top tax rate. For example, if you are in the 32% tax bracket, then a gift of $100 produces a charitable deduction of that amount. Multiplying the $100 times your 32% tax bracket produces an actual tax savings of $32. Of course, in some states you will also save state income taxes.
Your gift by check may be mailed to the charity. If you place the check in the U.S. mail by December 31 of this year and the check clears, it will be deducted in 2024 even though the charity receives the check next year.
If you make a gift of more than $250 to a charity, you must receive what the IRS calls "contemporaneous written acknowledgment" and what you probably refer to as a receipt. The charity will send you a receipt when the gift is made or at the end of the year when you are preparing to file your tax returns. You must keep the receipt for your records so you can prove the gift qualifies for a charitable deduction.
If you make charitable gifts using payroll deductions, you will be permitted to claim the charitable deduction. In that case, you must retain a pay stub or a Form W-2 from your employer that shows the amount given to charity.
You may also expend cash amounts that are deductible as volunteer expenses. In this case, you should make records of each expenditure that shows the services that were rendered to the charity. It also is important to note whether any goods or services have been transferred by the charity back to you.
Charities sometimes make transfers back to donors. A common type of transfer back is a charity dinner. For example, if the charity charges $100 for a dinner event and the value of the dinner is $18, then the charity will send you a receipt that shows a charitable gift of $82. The IRS has a special name for this gift. They call it a "quid pro quo" gift. If the charity is giving something substantial back to you, such as a dinner, the amount of your deduction is just the charitable part of the payment.
Another possible option is for a charity to give you a token gift. If the charity gives a donor a "low value" item that has the logo, colors or identification of the charity on it, it will be disregarded.
For 2024, donors who make gifts of $66.00 or more may receive items with the name or logo of the charity that are valued at less than $13.20. For donors who make fairly large gifts, the token item may generally have a value up to 2% of the amount of the gift with a limit on the token item value at $132. In the future, those numbers will increase slightly.
If you have been careful in budgeting this year like Sara and Jane, it may also be a very good time to make an end-of-year cash gift. By following the guidelines that are set forth, you can make sure that you have provided a very nice benefit for a favorite charity and also receive your full charitable deduction on your income taxes.
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Shipping Policy
At TRINAROSH we are committed to our customer's satisfaction. Our goal is to deliver your goods to the right place as quickly as possible and as inexpensive as possible.
We ship Worldwide to ensure that every customer gets to enjoy his or her shopping experience with us.
To ensure that your package is delivered properly and that you receive your package within the time frames we advertise, please make sure that your address is entered correctly and includes all relevant and/or required information. The use of correct abbreviations, street numbers, building or apartment numbers, and route information (if applicable) is critical for ensuring timely delivery. We do not take responsibility for lost, misplaced, or incorrectly delivered shipments if the address information provided is incorrect or incorrectly entered at the time of purchase.
If your order includes multiple items and one (or more) of the items are out of stock, we will contact you immediately and proceed with shipping the rest of your order, issuing a refund to your original form of payment for the item(s) that are not in stock.
Once you have placed an order, you will immediately get sms or email with the order #NUMBER with a status CONFIRMED.
Confirmed means we did receive your order and we are processing it.
We start processing the day after we receive your order once your payment is authorized and verified.
We have our own clothes production and sometimes some items might be out of stock. Usually, we process orders within 1-6 business days.
In case your order takes more than 6 business days to process, it means our team from production is doing their best to collect and ship your order. It might take up to 8-10 business days maximum.
For shoes and bags we always process orders within 1-4 business days.
The order processing time depends on the volume of orders we receive every day (excluding holidays, Saturdays, and Sundays).
Important note
In-Transit time starts when your order has been shipped and does not include processing time.Business days do not include Saturdays, Sundays, or Holidays!
We offer only Standard Shipping for the US/Australia/Canada/Rest of the World.
For standard shipping, we are using our US/EU-based sorting centers to forward parcels to our customers.
Therefore, when you receive a notification that your order is on the way, it means that your item has been shipped and it is on the way to the sorting center together with other orders, so the individual tracking number of your order has not been assigned yet.
Once your order reaches the sorting center, we will immediately notify you with the #TRACK NUMBER of your order. You can track your shipment to see the delivery status on your own now (you have to keep tracking your order every 1/2 days)
Important note
Once you receive a tracking number you can easily track your order on the carrier's website. Please do not panic if it does not show up immediately. There is a processing time for your order. When your order has been shipped, you will receive an email with tracking information and you can track your order.
Despite the fact that we only provide standard shipping times we work our hardest to get your order shipped as fast as possible!
In total it will take from 7 to 12 business days (including transit to the sorting center).
We have very low shipping prices. It is fixed for every country and every order. No matter how many items and shipping areas are in your order, the shipping price will always be fixed.
Shipping rates are calculated at checkout.
List of our shipping carriers for the standard shipping: US/Australia/Canada/Rest of World: UPS/USPS/FedEx
Important note for the customers from the EU:
From July 1, 2021, VAT will be charged on all commercial goods imported into the EU, regardless of value. We don't charge any import tax/vat/duty at the checkout. The buyer is responsible to pay the duty/import tax upon delivery. Note for all countries: DUTY TAX: There duty tax you might need to pay when your item arrives. Duty tax rates vary depending on the country. Trinarosh is not responsible for applicable customs fees, import duties, taxes, or any other charges.
- Delay Packages
If the item doesn't arrive after 30 days, then we will issue a refund. If your package is lost or missing, you must contact us within 10 days. Trinarosh does not guarantee responsibility for packages that have been reported as "Delivered" by the carrier and will review on a case by case basis.
- Wrong order status
If you are experiencing a non-delivery or your tracking information states that your package was delivered by the carrier but you have not received it, you must contact us within 10 days to file a claim.We will assist you in working with the carrier to complete the claims process. Please note: Claims can take up to 30 days to complete (depending on the shipping carrier used). Trinarosh does not hold or accept responsibility for packages that have been reported as delivered by the carrier. We do not issue refunds or credits for packages that the carrier confirms as being delivered.
- Refused packages will be seized or returned back to us.
Shipping companies inform us in advance if you don't take any actions within a 1-2 days timeframe then they will make a decision themselves with no prior approval. If the package is seized we won't issue a refund. If the package is returned back to us, we will charge shipping fees and taxes (import/duty). All those expenses will be deducted before refunding your funds.
Important note
Please note that when the package is in transit, we cannot control it. Sometimes, depending on your location, the package may be delivered with a delay. The reasons may be different: customs, weather conditions, or any other reason that is beyond our control.
- Additional costs for the delivery
Remote areas determined after processing. Additional shipping charges may apply. If you refuse to accept the package and the package is returned to us, shipping charges + import taxes will be charged. These fees will be collected before we issue a refund.
If you have any other questions, feel free to contact us via online chat 24/7.
Refund Policy
We take great pride in our reputation for quality and our website contains detailed size charts for every single item for your reference.
We are 100% sure that you will love your Trinarosh purchases. But in the unlikely event, if you have any issues with your order you will be able to quickly and easily return/exchange your item(s).
However, we are still suggesting all our buyers to check their items once they receive them. If there are any issues with your order you can request a return/exchange.
We have a 7-days return policy, which means you have 7 days after receiving your item to request a return/exchange. If you request a return/exchange after a 7 days timeframe, unfortunately, we won't be able to approve a return/exchange.
Only regular priced items may be refunded, unfortunately, sale items cannot be refunded!
Trinarosh issues refunds to the original form of payment used on an order only in the event that your order:
*Any other cases of occurrence of a return to the credit or exchange, reed the chapter EXCHANGE AND STORE CREDIT below.
If this is the case we sincerely apologize. We have strict quality assurance techniques to ensure this does not happen.
Contact us
To request exchange/refund write us at email@example.com
Do not forget to write your order # that is very important! It will simplify the initiation of the refund/exchange/cancellation process. You can find your order number in your confirmation email.
We will notify you of the approval of your refund/exchange in 1-2 business days.
If your request is approved we will be responsible for paying the shipping fee back to us. Once your return is received and inspected, we will send you an email to notify you that we have received your returned item.
When we issue a refund, it will take from 2-5 business days for the funds to be deposited into the buyer's bank account. In some cases, it might be longer, it all depends on the buyer's bank.
We have a 7-days return policy, which means you have 7 days after receiving your item to request a return/exchange. If you request a return/exchange after a 7 days timeframe, unfortunately, we won't be able to approve a return/exchange.
When the buyer returns the goods due to the wrong size, color, style (when it doesn't suit), or quality Trinarosh can only issue a store credit of the goods (no refund to the card, we can issue store credit only) or exchange to a bigger/smaller size. Exchanges are free of charge.
Contact us
To request exchange/refund write us at firstname.lastname@example.com
Do not forget to write your order # that is very important! It will simplify the initiation of the refund/exchange/cancellation process. You can find your order number in your confirmation email.
We will notify you of the approval of your refund/exchange in 1-2 business days
You are responsible for paying the shipping fee and it is fully under your responsibility until the package reaches us. Once your return is received and inspected, we will send you an email to notify you that we have received your returned item.
When we issue a credit store refund or exchange, it will take from 2-5 business days to issue a store credit or to process the exchange.
For the exchange of the goods, the period will be the same as prescribed in the SHIPPING POLICY.
Important note
Please do not return anything before we review the case, our customer service team will review the request and will send further instructions. Our warehouses are located in different areas across the world, so in case of your decision to file a return you don't need to send it yourself to the address from which we sent the goods. If you decide to ship the return without prior communication to our customer service team, it may go to the wrong warehouse and we will no longer be able to automatically return it or replace it.
Trinarosh reserves the right to deny any return request if it is if he violates our refund policy you automatically agreed to when proceeded to pay for your order.
Ship the package back within 2 business days from the moment your return request is approved. If you have two/three items, please pack them properly and do not mess them up as items can look "damaged/used" once they will reach us. You are responsible for paying the shipping fee back to us and it is fully under your responsibility until the package reaches us. Shipping costs are refundable only in case of refund to original payment method according to our policy.
Make sure to get the tracking number once you ship the item back, contact us, and provide it to us. Otherwise, it might be hard to find your package and it can be delayed as it will take time to find your return in our warehouse.
If you are shipping an item over $75, you should consider using a trackable shipping service or purchasing shipping insurance. We don't guarantee that we will receive your returned item.
For every return, we take a picture as proof of receiving your return. Once your return is received and inspected, we will immediately send you an email to notify you that we have received your returned item. We will also notify you of the approval or rejection of your refund.
If you are approved, then your refund will be processed in the method you had chosen in the request.
Important note
We do inspect every return and in case we detect that item was used, damaged, or in not suitable condition, we have a right to return the item to you and will ask you to cover the shipping fee back to you.
If you are approved, then your refund will be processed, and a credit will automatically be applied to your credit store card or original method of payment, within a certain amount of days (usually no more than 5 days)
Important note
If you request an exchange of goods, then the terms of shipment will be the same as indicated in the SHIPPING POLICY.
As you can understand for sanitary reasons we are unable to return/refund or exchange personal products such as Сorseted dresses, Tops, Lingerie, Hosiery, Bodysuits & Swimwear.
We do understand that you want to try an item and see what it looks like on you, make sure to actually try item(s) but please do not use (wear them 2-3 times) item(s) and then process the return. We do inspect every return and in case we detect that item was used, damaged, or in not suitable condition, we have a right to return the item to you and will ask you to cover the shipping fee back to you.
For every return, we take a picture as proof of receiving your return. We have a right to refuse a return at any time in case if determine:
- Items are used, damaged, or washed.
- Received item which doesn't belong to our brand.
- Wardrobe
Keep in mind that if we detect any suspicious activity which is listed above, you will be blacklisted and reported. We reserve legal action in case your return doesn't match what you actually ordered.
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splash -- splash screen / screen saver interface
device splash
The splash pseudo device driver adds support for the splash screen and screen savers to the kernel. This driver is required if the splash bitmap image is to be loaded or any screen saver is to be used. Splash screen [Toc] [Back] You can load and display an arbitrary bitmap image file as a welcome banner on the screen when the system is about to start. This image will remain on the screen during kernel initialization process until the login prompt appears on the screen or until a screen saver is loaded and initialized. The image will also disappear if you hit any key, although this may not work immediately if the kernel is still probing devices. If you specify the -c or -v boot option when loading the kernel, the splash image will not appear. However, it is still loaded and can be used as a screen saver later: see below. In order to display the bitmap, the bitmap file itself and the matching splash image decoder module must be loaded by the boot loader. Currently the following decoder modules are available: splash_bmp.ko W*ndows BMP file decoder. While the BMP file format allows images of various color depths, this decoder currently only handles 256 color bitmaps. Bitmaps of other color depths will not be displayed. splash_pcx.ko ZSoft PCX decoder. This decoder currently only supports version 5 8-bpp single-plane images. The EXAMPLES section illustrates how to set up the splash screen. If the standard VGA video mode is used, the size of the bitmap must be 320x200 or less. If you enable the VESA mode support in the kernel, either by statically linking the VESA module or by loading the VESA module (see vga(4)), you can load bitmaps up to a resolution of 1024x768, depending on the VESA BIOS and the amount of video memory on the video card. Screen saver [Toc] [Back] The screen saver will activate when the system is considered idle: i.e. when the user has not typed a key or moved the mouse for a specified period of time. As the screen saver is an optional module, it must be explicitly loaded into memory. Currently the following screen saver modules are available: blank_saver.ko This screen saver simply blanks the screen. daemon_saver.ko Animated BSD Daemon screen saver. fade_saver.ko The screen will gradually fade away. green_saver.ko If the monitor supports power saving mode, it will be turned off. logo_saver.ko Animated graphical BSD Daemon. rain_saver.ko Draws a shower on the screen. snake_saver.ko Draws a snake of string. star_saver.ko Twinkling stars. warp_saver.ko Streaking stars. Screen saver modules can be loaded using kldload(8): kldload logo_saver The timeout value in seconds can be specified as follows: vidcontrol -t N Alternatively, you can set the saver variable in the /etc/rc.conf to the screen saver of your choice and the timeout value to the blanktime variable so that the screen saver is automatically loaded and the timeout value is set when the system starts. The screen saver may be instantly activated by hitting the saver key: the defaults are Shift-Pause on the AT enhanced keyboard and Shift-Ctrl-NumLock/Pause on the AT 84 keyboard. You can change the saver key by modifying the keymap (see kbdcontrol(1), keymap(5)), and assign the saver function to a key of your preference. The screen saver will not run if the screen is not in text mode. Splash screen as a screen saver [Toc] [Back] If you load a splash image but do not load a screen saver, you can continue using the splash module as a screen saver. The screen blanking interval can be specified as described in the Screen saver section above.
/boot/defaults/loader.conf boot loader configuration defaults /etc/rc.conf system configuration information /boot/kernel/splash_*.ko splash image decoder modules /boot/kernel/*_saver.ko screen saver modules /boot/kernel/vesa.ko the VESA support module
In order to load the splash screen or the screen saver, you must have the following line in the kernel configuration file. device splash Next, edit /boot/loader.conf (see loader.conf(5)) and include the following lines: splash_bmp_load="YES" bitmap_load="YES" bitmap_name="chuck.bmp" In the above example, the file chuck.bmp is loaded. In the following example, the VESA module is loaded so that a bitmap file which cannot be displayed in standard VGA modes may be shown using one of the VESA video modes. splash_pcx_load="YES" vesa_load="YES" bitmap_load="YES" bitmap_name="chuck.pcx" If the VESA support is statically linked to the kernel, it is not necessary to load the VESA module. Just load the bitmap file and the splash decoder module as in the first example above.
Both the splash screen and the screen saver work with syscons(4) only. They are not available for the alternative console driver pcvt(4).
If you load a screen saver while another screen saver has already been loaded, the first screen saver will not be automatically unloaded and will remain in memory, wasting kernel memory space.
vidcontrol(1), syscons(4), vga(4), loader.conf(5), rc.conf(5), kldload(8), kldunload(8)
The splash driver first appeared in FreeBSD 3.1.
The splash driver and this manual page were written by Kazutaka Yokota <firstname.lastname@example.com>. The splash_bmp module was written by Michael Smith <email@example.com> and Kazutaka Yokota. The splash_pcx module was written by Dag-Erling Smorgrav <email@example.com> based on the splash_bmp code. FreeBSD 5.2.1 February 9, 1999 FreeBSD 5.2.1


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Stop your negative thought |
Ask what type of negative thought you had |
Choose an accurate, helpful thought |
"I get so nervous speaking in public. I just know that people are thinking about how bad I am at speaking." |
Focusing on the negative |
"I'm probably better at public speaking than I think I am. The last time I gave a talk, people applauded afterward." |
"I have to be in control all the time or I can't cope with things." |
Should |
"I can only control how I think about things or what I do. I can't control some things, like how other people feel and act." |
"I'll never feel normal. I worry about everything all the time." |
Overgeneralizing |
"I've laughed and relaxed before. I can practice letting go of my worries." |
"My headaches must mean there is something seriously wrong with me." |
Catastrophic thinking |
"A lot of things can cause headaches. Most of them are minor and go away." |
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Author: Healthwise Staff
Medical Review:Catherine D. Serio PhD - Behavioral Health & Kathleen Romito MD - Family Medicine & Christine R. Maldonado PhD - Behavioral Health


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A. General User Interface
- Too much empty space in screens (Wilck)
- Suggestion: constrain UI to a given particular max resolution. maybe 1024x768 or 1280x1024 or something like that.
- Disproportion between large items and smaller elements at margins (Wilck)
- Suggestion: again might be helped with constrained max resolution set on screens
User dislikes having to move mouse from lower right corner to upper left corner, would like shortcuts to not have to move mouse so far (inode0)Alt-D is a keyboard shortcut that can be used to hit done.- Not sure about whether or not the spokes in the hub had to be completed in a certain order or not - it's not clear. (tburke)
- It could be much clearer which items on screen are mandatory and which are optional - by default the VM window cut off the notification area so the only indicator was the /!\ icon which is really small. (tburke)
- Would like to see every screen to have a help screen available. Example - some checkbox items' real purpose wasn't clear, it would be nice to get more information about why you'd want to use that checkbox somehow. (tburke)
- We should have a '<' icon or a grid icon (see icon in gnome-control-center for going back to the hub) next to the 'Done' buttons in the upper left. We may even want to consider killing the 'Done' text and just having the button. (Mo)
- Suggestions: These are some mockups showing the various ideas: mockups
- Once you've visited a screen, there's no indicator that it's been visited. (Mo)
- Suggestion: Color spoke icons black if unvisited, and grey if visited. This is possible but not right now because of GTK limitation - will need custom code to support display of emblems on black-colored icons. Mockup showing this
- New 4/15/13 Using arrow keys to navigate the hub screens is a bit dicey.
- "I can't control it with arrow keys. Aha, it's possible. But it jumps everywhere when using the arrow keys." (Brno #1 Participant #1) (Brno #1)
- New 4/16/13 Participant #4 wasn't sure if he could enter any of the spokes when some where still loading. (Westford)
- Suggestion: Add text to top of hub #1, "You may complete any item below as soon as it has loaded. Items may be completed in any order." mockup showing text on hub #1
No keyboard layout indicator when switching layout (bug 901777) (bug 895913)(bugzilla) (vpodzime fixed this)Users used to buttons in lower right corner of screen, confused by position of 'done' button.(Wilck) All lower-right corner buttons removed from spokes. Only hubs have a button there now.We should display warning-level notices from the sanity check in the UI notification error; we only show errors now (bug 909410)(bugzilla) Done.
B. Language Selection
- Huge language selection list filling screen is overwhelming (Wilck)
- Initial language selection screen has no indication of keyboard layout affiliated with chosen language (Wilck)
- Easy to completely overlook 'Set keyboard to default layout' checkbox (Wilck)
- New 4/15/13 Czech users had some trouble finding Czech - we default to English, but people naturally scroll downwards, not upwards, so a couple of the users missed the Czech option for a while. Participant #2 tried a few search terms and they didn't work out - he tried "ces" ("cestina"), "4e" ("čeština"), "cy" ("cz"), and then "cz". Only the latter worked. (Brno #1)
Suggestion: If it's at all possible, allow for searching without diacritics on the language screen? So if a user searches 'cestina' it would return 'čeština' ?Done.Suggestion: Place English at the very top of the list. Then all other languages will be below it, so the natural tendency to scroll down won't make users of languages that come before 'English' get lost finding their language. I think the mockups were initially mocked up this way, English listed first with a divider under it, then the rest of the list in alpha order - see mockupDone.Suggestion: If we already knew which language to use (inst.lang=, etc.) we could put that one first (instead of English as suggested above.) This would make language selection easier for other languages if the person building the pxe server / custom language spin could use inst.lang=Done.- Suggestion: Some of the ideas we had early day: was that if we had geoip at that point, put the geoip related languages above that divider too
- New 4/15/13 Users didn't understand what the default keyboard layout checkbox was all about on this screen. (Brno #1)
- Example user quote: "I do not know what 'Nastavit klávesnici jako výchozí rozložení pro označený jazyk' (Set keyboard to default layout for selected language) means. Let's leave it unchecked." (Brno #1 Participant #3)
- Example user quote: "Even though I don't know what's the exact meaning. What the author wanted to express. I have to think about it to understand what it means." (Brno #1 Participant #1)
Suggestion: Just kill the checkbox and always change the default keyboard to the default for the selected language.Done.
- Participant in Brno #1 complained that there was no way to exit the language selection screen by hitting the enter key. (Brno #1)
- Suggestion: Allow passage through welcome / language selection screen with the enter key.
- (old idea, not from usability tests) Flag languages with < 50% translation as 'Limited Translation' based on Transifex data, if possible. see mockup
Text field at bottom of language selection screen confusing - has no label as to what it's there for (Wilck) (sbueno patched this - adding a label inside the filter box that says "Type here to search")Done, fix present in F19 RC builds
C. Date & Time Screen
- World map looks pixelated/blurry on larger screens (Wilck)
- Fine-tuning timezone using red pin inside the zone or top left controls easy to overlook (Wilck)
City selection dropdown takes up full height of screen and is unwieldy to work with (Wilck)Suggestion: The type input into the combobox for timezones should use typeahead to autocomplete; even better the dropdown list should jump on keyboard entry matches (so if I type 'M' while in the list it jumps down to the M's in the list.) GTK *should* allow this. One idea is the style attribute 'appears-as-list' property but preliminary poking around with GTK I can't seem to get this to work. There's an implementation idea in this article but it's for PyGTK.This is implemented, but doesn't work due to a bug in the Gtk. Until it is fixed we can use inline completion that seems to work. -- vpodzime
No way to configure AM/PM vs. 24 hour time preference if you use network time (inode0)Suggestion: Can we simply not grey out AM/PM vs 24 hour when network time is turned on? --Duffy (talk) 17:47, 22 April 2013 (UTC)- This widget is entirely for controlling how you specify time in the installer - it doesn't have any effect on the installed system. Perhaps that's confusing, but it's what it is there for. -- clumens
- Network time controls in far upper right affect grey-out status of local time settings on far bottom of screen - they are placed too far apart for user to realize they affect each other (inode0)
- Suggestion: I've done a mockup rearranging the screen to make the relationship between network time greying out manual time control options hopefully more clear. Now the network time switch is on the bottom centered above the manual time controls, implying a relationship the network time switch has over the manual time controls. See date/time redo mockup
It's unclear whether or not the date/time settings affect only the installer or if they will also affect the installed OS, and how (inode)- If there's no network connection, don't set network time by default? (inode0)
- Suggestion: don't set network time by default and put a note beside the setting if there's no available network connection. mockup showing network message
- New 4/16/13 Certain timezones, when selected from the dropdown, don't result in the map and pin on the map getting updated. Participant #3 ran into this. Seems like an outright bug. (Westford)
- I was able to reproduce with the following values:
- Region: US / City: Any except Alaska
- Region: Etc / City: All except GMT
- I was able to reproduce with the following values:
D. Network Configuration
- New 4/16/13 On the network screen, Anaconda offers you to create a network bond even though there is only one NIC on the machine. You need a minimum of 2 NICs to create a bond. This seems like a bug. Two participants hit it. We shouldn't offer to create a network bond unless you have a minimum of 2 NICs I think. (Westford)
- I can't reproduce this. Is there any more data? -- clumens
- New 4/16/13 The hostname field is hard to see. Even a recent blog post on Planet Fedora gave a 'workaround' for this 'missing' field - we should make it more visible. Maybe place it at the very top of the screen instead of the bottom? (Westford)
- New 4/16/13 Not sure of answer to question from participant #2 - "If I disconnect the network on this screen after filling out the custom [static ip] settings, then reconnect, will it come back with my custom settings?" (It should.) (Westford)
- New 4/16/13 Participant #2 confused about whether or not network changes / disconnects would make install fail. Might be worth having a note on the network screen to say a network connection isn't required for install. (Westford)
- New 4/16/13 If network is turned off, you can't turn NTP on and there is no error message as to why you can't turn it on. We should have a reasonable error message for this scenario. (Westford)
E. Installation Destination Screen
- When advanced storage devices pane not visible, excessive whitespace on screen. (Wilck)
- "Done" would be more accurately called "Back" on this screen because if you select no storage 'done' doesn't make sense verbally. (Wilck)
- It's no longer possible set configure the 'BIOS boot [sic] disk order.' (Wilck)
- Suggestion that 'installation destination' screen design be changed to match that of the 'selected disks' lightbox (Wilck)
- Misunderstanding that the 'partitioning scheme' dropdown doesn't matter if you enter custom partitioning (when it actually does) (Wilck)
- Use case of 'I don't care about anything on the disk, just set up an install as if they disk was blank' is confusing when walking through the install destination & custom part UIs. (inode0)
New 4/15/13 Users in Brno were pretty confused about whether or not a given disk was selected. Every single user in Brno #1 ran into it. This was also an issue in the Westford tests. ((Brno #1, Westford)- E.g., "I'm clicking on the drive but nothing happens. I'm clicking again. Aha. If I click again, then the drive is deselected. It's something I don't want to happen." (Brno #1 Participant #1)
- Suggestion: Don't select a disk drive by default in the storage spoke. Right now we select the first disk by default. Since we always require users to visit the storage spoke anyway, we should let them select the first disk and select no disks by default. (mockup)
Suggestion: Have checkboxes on the selected disks to make it more clear they are selected.(mockup) Done.
New 4/15/13 Multiple Brno #1 users entered storage spoke just to take a look and hit done to leave without changing anything, but they encountered issues when they tried to leave - it would tell them they didn't have enough disk space because of the configuration they had already done. If users don't change anything about an already-completed storage setup, 'Done' should just let them leave (maybe still pop up the dialog if they want to go to custom though.)This is done, but it's definitely not foolproof. it should work for most people though.New 4/16/13 By default, the filesystem and device type options should be displayed rather than hidden behind a disclosure triangle (Westford)Done.- New 4/16/13 Participant #3 couldn't find custom partitioning, wasn't intuitive to him to leave disk selection to get to it. (Westford)
Once you've completed configuring storage, there's no real summary of how you set it up for you to review. It might be nice if there was.(adamw1) (clumens added a summary screen to custom partition exit)'Encrypt my data' checkbox doesn't seem to belong on this screen.(Wilck) dlehman moved this checkbox to the disk selection summary dialog.Distinguishing between disks on this screen is difficult - only reliable property is disk size. Would like device names (eg /dev/sda/) or 'device 2 lun 3 on scsi host 1' to be more front and center.(Wilck) we added device names (e.g., /dev/sda) under the disks on this screen.'Selected Disks' lightbox only offers serial number as additional information to identify disks, could offer more.(Wilck) (BZ #902617)Users worried about whether or not they are writing to disk when they exit storage spokes(Mo) Text added 'we won't touch your disks until you hit this button' on main hub and text 'disks left unselected here will be not be touched' text added to disk selection widgets on disk selection screen.
F. Custom Partitioning Screen
- Installations are sorted by their root partitions in alphabetical order rather than numberical order (e.g., sdb10, sdb11, ..., sdb9) (Wilck)
- Partitions used by several OSes are listed once for every distribution - no visual indication of which partitions are shared (Wilck)
- 'Not enough free space' error not very visible (bug 907889) (Wilck)
- It's unclear how you should overwrite a particular existing partition - user assumed they should delete the old one and create a new one. Instead, user discovered they should type '/' in the mount point field and click the 'reformat' box, which wasn't intuitive to them. (bug 908862) (Wilck)
- It seems impossible to configure custom partitioning with no leftover and unused space on disk. (inode0)
- Left-hand-side displays both pre-existing OSes as well as 'not yet existing' new OS install. (bug 883148) (bugzilla)
The installer doesn't allow for encryption setup of individual LVs (bug 909228) (bugzilla)Done.- New 4/16/13 When you try to change the capacity of a partition and there's no space left, you don't get an error message - the size just goes back to what it was. It would be good to have some messaging around what is going on there. (Westford)
New 4/16/13 Multiple users expressed confusion about the 'Apply changes' button. They didn't know if they needed to hit it or not. Suggestion: The 'apply changes' button shouldn't be lit unless you've made changes. Might be nice to highlight fields that have pending changes when button is lit as well. (Westford)This is also done, but is not foolproof either. If you change something and then change it back to its original value, we'll still think it was changed. Correcting this seems like more work than it's worth, though.- New 4/16/13 Users who ran out of disk space in custom partitioning were very confused, didn't understand how to go back, add another disk, and continue with custom partitioning. Happened to multiple participants - the loop that participant #3 got into is especially illustrative of the problem here. (Westford)
New 4/16/13 The '+' on the disk capacity spinner in custom partitioning does not limit the number you can enter, even though when you hit apply changes the number gets cut down. (Westford)Spinner is gone.- New 4/16/13 Participant #4 had to pick BTRFS to pick a RAID level, the other types (LVM, Standard partitions) greyed out the raid selector.... RAID should be possible with standard partition. But he only had one disk selected, that's why it didn't show up. (Westford)
- New 4/16/13 When participant #4 selected a RAID level he didn't have enough disks for and hit done anyway, anaconda crashed. (Westford)
- New 4/16/13 In custom partitioning, creating a swap partition didn't default to a swap fs type for one of the participants. It seems like it really should. (Westford)
[major] RAID selection needs major revamping, has some inconsistencies / incorrect information.(dledford) RAID has been redesigned from scratch, implementation of redesign plannedCustom partition creation instructions don't acknowledge partition re-use possibility. (bug 883150)(bugzilla)- (25 Feb 2014) Disk space request should be slider like on reclaim disk space screen, instead of field - hard to indicate 'fill all space' or 'fill halfway' with a fill-in box, not clear how to express units either (elad)
- (25 Feb 2014) (bz 1067929) /home fills larger device, can't create new part even though plenty of space on smaller disk (elad)
- (25 Feb 2014) having an update button causes confusion esp when you're not making changes on main custom part screen but in adv config off of left pane.
G. Network and Specialized Storage
- New 4/15/13 If you have no network storage available, all of the network storage filter UI lists are empty. It would be nice to have an empty list message that directs you towards manually adding network storage using the add iSCSI/zFCP/FCoE target buttons. (You can use a GtkOverlay for this; put the GtkScrolledWindow and a GtkLabel with the empty list message as two sibling children inside the GtkOverlay, and hide the GtkLabel when the list is populated with entries.) (Mo)
- New 4/16/13 Participant #3 didn't understand the network storage filter screen and didn't know how to get back to the main disk selection screen. (Westford)
H. Reclaim Space Dialog
- New 4/15/13 When you click on 'Delete' for selected (NTFS) partition and you confirm it (clicking on 'Reclaim Space') then you can not reverse this action. I have to quit this installation and start from the beginning. The same problem is with the "shrunk" space etc. Maybe the dialog needs a reset button? (Brno #1)
New 4/15/13 No markers on slider - "("It would be appropriate if the slider- has some- marking- of values. At least some scale can be indicated.")" (Brno #1 Participant #3)Done.New 4/15/13 Doesn't allow keyboard sizing "("Is it possible to enter that with the keyboard? No, it's not possible. Only with slider. I think it's quite a pity.")" (Brno #1 Participant #2)Done.- New 4/15/13 Slider is disabled unless you click "shrink to." This confused two of the Brno #1 participants. Maybe keep the slider active and only shrink the space if the shrink button is pressed afterwards? (Brno #1)
I. Software Selection
- If a desktop environment's repo is busted, it'll still show up and wreak havoc and will break the whole install, this was a problem with mate in one of the test releases. Similarly there was an inkscape packaging bug in a test release that would cause the entire install to fail (minor points brought up peripherally related to bug 875433) (bugzilla)
- New 4/16/13 Multiple users didn't seem to realize the base platform / left-hand side list on the software selection spoke scrolled. Minimal install seemed like it would be a desirable option for them but they never saw it. Suggestion that minimal install, at least for RHEL, should be listed towards the top - every user sought it out. (Westford)
New 4/16/13 On the software selection screen, participant #1 seemed confused about the relationship between the left hand side of the screen and the right hand side of the screen. For example, she wanted a server that had a webserver and infrastructure server on it - but she didn't realize she could get both by picking infrastructure server on the left and web on the right, or a minimal system and picking infrastructure and web on the right. Might make sense to change "Environment" as the label to "Base System" and to tune down the number of options offered as "base system" (Westford)Reworded the top labels in line with what we discussed in IRC.- New 4/16/13 Participant #2 confused about how verify button on install source spoke was able to work without network... thoughts? (Westford)
- New 4/16/13 Participant 4 wasn't sure about what some of the base system selections under software selection meant. Eg. what is an infrastructure server? Might be worth having some kind of dialog pop up for each one with a sampling of the packages or something. Or just have better descriptions :) (Westford)
New 4/16/13 Only the radio button in the software selection list is clickable - the whole row isn't. Participant #4 seemed to have trouble targeting the small radio button icon. If we can make the whole row clickable, it would make it easier on users I think. Participant #4 was confused that no add-ons are selected by default with infrastructure server. (Westford)Done.- New 4/16/13 The software dependency error dialog should not have a quit button on it. There's no need to quit the whole installer because it's a fixable issue (just unselect the thing you picked.) The user almost clicked on quit thinking it was the same as cancel to get out of the dialog. (Westford)
J. Keyboard Layout
- New 4/15/13 Multiple users in Brno #1 clicked on a keyboard layout in the left-hand side and didn't realize by clicking on it they weren't selecting it or setting it as default. One user understood the ordering mattered. Need some solution. Not sure yet. (Brno #1)
- Example from test video: "Goes to keyboard, clicks on Czech in the list on the left hand side. However, it remains at the bottom of list and not as default. It seems he was expecting that clicking it would set it as default."
K. Hub #2
- New 4/15/13 Multiple users in Brno #1 were afraid to set the root password during install; they thought it would break the install. They wouldn't even click on the spoke.
- Example quote: "On the screen, there's the option to set an administrator password. But I would rather set this password after installation." (Brno #1 Participant #1)
- "I don't want to try it during the installation." (Brno Participant #4)
- Suggestion: Add explanatory text to top of second hub to let users know they can configure the options shown without disturbing the install.
L. Root Password Screen
- New 4/15/13 Users in Brno #1 complained about the error messages when their password didn't meet certain requirements. It would be better to have some text at the top of the screen that outlined the requirements the code checks for. I'm not sure of exactly what it's checking for though - I know it requires more than 4 characters in length based on the test participants' experience. (Brno #1)
Z. Outright Bugs / Mistakes
- Exclamation Mark displayed when nothing to do on Software Selection entry on main hub (Wilck)
- 'Set keyboard to default layout' checkbox does not work / Language selection screen (Wilck)
'You have no working NTP server configured' warning message in notification area is not dismissed when NTP is turned off.(Wilck)- Lightboxes shrink mysteriously (bug 907441) (Wilck)
- New LVs cannot be made larger even though there's available unused space in their VG (bug 906906) (bugzilla)
- New LVs default assigned size seems to be based on unpartitioned space on the physical disk rather than unused space within their VG. (bug 906908) (bugzilla)
Required space number doesn't reflect space needed for swap. (bug 951269) (Brno #1, bugzilla)- New 4/16/13 On the network screen, if you click to create a bond when there is one NIC, Anaconda crashes. (Westford) NEEDS TO BE FILED
On network screen, lightbox that should say 'editing eth0' says 'Editing Boot Disk'(inode0) Appears to be a network manager bug?The 'set as boot device' and 'remove' buttons on the disk shopping cart screen should be greyed out when no disk is selected on install destination screen.(Wilck)
- Wilck - PDF write-up sent to Larry T.
- inode0 - email to Mo from John Rose with various UI feedback.
- tburke - email to Mo from Tim Burke with various UI feedback (from FUDcon Lawrence demo)
- dledford - email to Mo from Doug Ledford with feedback regarding RAID configuration
- adamw1 - adamw email to anaconda-devel: https://www.redhat.com/archives/anaconda-devel-list/2013-January/msg00096.html
- bugzilla - miscellaneous bugzilla-reported issues. Refer to bugzilla number in issue description for source.
- mo - something Mo noticed in the UI that we should or forgot to do :)
- Brno #1 - Brno usability tests session #1
- Brno #2 - Brno usability tests session #2
- Westford -Westford usability tests


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