Re: Bug#245524: Usability issue: finish should be at the bottom
(following-up to -boot as this is not really related)
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 05:23:48PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> ³ Finish partitioning and write changes to disk ³
> ³ Undo changes to partitions ³
> ³ ³
> ³ IDE1 master - 40.0 GB ST340810A ³
> ³ > #2 primary 39.7 GB ext3 ³
> ³ > #1 primary 254.9 MB F ext3 / ³
> ³ > pri/log 4.6 MB FREE SPACE ³
> ³ ³
> ³ Help on partitioning ³
> ³ Guided partitioning ³
> ³ Configure the Logical Volume Manager ³
Talking about partman and usability:
I had a hard time figuring out that you can actually *select* the
partitions displayed above the three options there at the bottom,
seperated by a blank line.
Due to this blank line, I was under the impression that they'd be just a
summary of the detected partitions and you'd have to do something else
to actually manually partition your harddrive. So it took me like 10
minutes, restarting partman a couple of times and staring blankly at the
screen before I managed...
Of course, this is probably because I did not read the instructions I
guess, but having a visual clue that this is just a big list you can
select would be nice. Dunno if this is possible with the dialog debconf
frontend, perhaps a different background for all the options?
Also, this observation was a while ago, before Beta-3 I think. So
excuse me if things have changed since then.
cheers,
Michael
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