Mailinglist Archive: yast-devel (26 mails)

[Jiri Srain <jsrain@xxxxxxx>]

Dne pondělí 09 Březen 2009 18:58:32 Arvin Schnell napsal(a):
> 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.

We can define several scenarios, for which we show different screen as default 
(e.g. there is a volume goroup existing). I guess there will be only a handful 
of them. For the others, we can stick with the disks screen.

Jiri

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Jiri Srain
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