On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 03:22:03PM +0100, Katarína Machálková wrote:
No nazdar,
I guess this is an example that shows the new feature and the partitioner will contain the "missing" buttons.
Hopefully :)
Arvin's comment on that issue: 2009-03-06 22:29:23 That is intended so. All possible buttons (”Add Partition”, “Add RAID”, “Add Volume Group”, “Add Logical Volume”, “Add Crypt File”, “Add NFS Share”, “Edit”, “Resize”, “Delete”, “Rescan Disks”, …) would take to much space.
That's why I'm for defining how should it look like if the buttons can't fit ;)
The "all available devices" screen of partitioner is very unfortunate example, where context menu is the only available means of accessing device type specific functions, as all above mentioned function buttons really would not fit the screen (in no resolution). In this screen, there will be only function buttons for tasks that are common for all devices and independent of the device type (e.g. Rescan Devices, Import mountpoints etc.).
Moreover, there is a request to make "all available devices" non-default partitioner screen and pre-select hard disks screen instead, as partitioning the disk is far the most common task in partitioner.
I don't like that request: People who use LVM would want the LVM screen per default since the disk screen is mostly useless for them.
In all other screens there will be of course device-specific function buttons (or menu buttons) that will provide an alternative access to the funcionality from the context menu.
Exactly, right now the context menus are just shortcuts to ease editing. Anybody willing to compile YaST from SVN can have a look at the first implementation.
After some time, we can consider dropping buttons under the table and rely on context menu only, but there definitely must be some transition period so that users can learn about context menus and get used to them.
Another possibility might be to add a menubar and drop all "command" buttons. Users should be able to understand the concept of a menubar even if it's rarely used in YaST. And a menubar would be capable of housing 20 commands. After all the interface of the expert partitioner is not that complicated (doesn't offer so many commands) compared to user programs like Firefox, Thunderbird, Acroread or Emacs but apparently the way we design dialogs in YaST doesn't fulfil its needs. Regards, Arvin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help@opensuse.org