Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-ux (89 mails)

[Martin Schmidkunz <mschmidkunz@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

to be honest I though of some Wizard like things at first as well, but I
dropped them because in the wizard workflow you would have something like:
What do you want to do?
* Shrink a partition
* OK, Which partition do you want to shrink?=> display of all hard/discs
partitions?

* Create a partition
* OK, Which unallocated disc space do you want to use?=> display of all
hard discs/partitions?


But maybe it just needs more thinking about that :-)

> --- example ---
> There is not enough space (no space) for the openSUSE installation.
> Windows installation takes all the disk (almost all the disk).
> Would you like to
> 
>   (x) Shrink Windows installation and propose openSUSE disk layout
>       for a Dual-Boot computer?
>   ( ) Remove Windows installation and use the entire disk for openSUSE?
>   ( ) Sit Down and Listen to Hooverphonic?
>   ( ) Run Expert Disk-Partitioning Tool?
> 
> --- example ---

I request a tool tip to explain the term "Hooverphonic" :-)

> Yes, Ubuntu partitioner is also sometimes a bit confusing and it doesn't
> use the dialog space very efficiently in some cases.

Yapp.

> How would you like to read that article? 

e.g. people who don't know what a partition is? :-)

> Partitioning needs to be self-explanatory.

It needs to be self-explanatory but you have to bring some basic skills
with you (e.g. what is a partition)

> I'd be interested in a study that tries to prove or disclaim or just
> defines how many UI widgets in one dialog can be easily understood to a
> user that sees it for the very fist time, than a second time (after some
> time). Also a layout of widgets makes the difference I guess.

This also depends on the grouping of the widget (I think that is also
what you meant by layout of widgets)
Basically short term memory can remember something like 5-7 chunks
(pieces of information).
It also heavily depends on the experience of the user and other factors.
But to give a short answer: I don't know anything exact about that :-)

> As an example, a base dialog with table of disks could be used, [Add],
> [Edit], [Delete]

I was also thinking about that, but I was also asked to think of an
innovative design.
Difficult, difficult. I just rethink the whole thing :-)

> Common user will love it, IT administrators might hate it. Why we just
> don't hide it under a [x] "Show Graphical Overview" check-box that would
> be unselected in an Expert Partitioner and selected in a Newbie Mode :)
> (yes, they are only default values).

I thought about that as well but I couldn't figure out a nice place for
the switch between graphical and numerical mode.
I first thought about using tabs or radio buttons.

> Drawing use-cases helps a lot to the designer :) I know that ;) believe
> me. 

I believe you :-)


Cu,

Martin

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