Bob S wrote:
On Sunday 21 December 2008 09:48:10 pm James Knott wrote:
Why has the Partioner been changed to make it so hard to adjust partition sizes? In previous versions of OpenSUSE, when creating a partition, it was easy to see and modify the partition size or start/end cylinders. Now, it appears you have to create a partition and if you want to change it, you have to delete and then recreate it. Even if you specify start/stop cylinders, you can't later see how many there are. Why are we supposed to operate blind in this area? We shouldn't have to guess or use trial & error to get the desired partition sizes.
The old story James. They had to make it better !! Surprised me also when I went to install 11.1. Took me half an hour to figure out the expert partitoning which used to be so intuitive, while muttering to myself, "why did they do that?"
And speaking of "blind", I am visually impaired Where do they come up with the colors they use in the menu's? Blues and greens on black which are almost impossibe for me to see. Must be all young people with good eyesight designing that stuff. Not much thought given to accessability. There should be a tester just for that nonsense.
Bob S
That partitioner stopped one installation cold. I have a Netfinity server, with 4 drives. I set them up in a RAID 5 array and then LVM on top of the RAID to create the various partitions. I couldn't see how to create the LVM on RAID. That may be a show stopper for a lot of business users. The alternative is to create a lot of individual raids, for the various partitions and that is a *LOT* of work. I'll give it another try soon, but I'm not optimistic. There is also the issue of Wake on Lan no longer working. I entered that in Bugzilla, but no response yet. Then there's the problem with XDMCP not allowing a 11.0 system to access 11.1. I also put that in Bugzilla, but only got a couple of questions about what "unresponsive" keyboard means and the level of questioning was an insult to my intelligence. If things don't improve, 11.1 may be the one distro I skip. Also, your issue is one example of someone considering "eye candy" to be more important than function, which is my beef with a lot of things these days, particularly KDE 4. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org