Comment # 14 on bug 1215639 from roke beedell

(In reply to Lukas Ocilka from comment #11)
> (In reply to roke beedell from comment #9)
> > Not even an explanation, perhaps beside the decision itself? Some
> > explanatory text would not even come close to creating that poorly organized
> > GUI depicted. If I had known, I would have been able to use the Expert
> > Partitioner to delete the SWAP partition (probably, I've not tried).
> 
> If you imagine how many user scenarios and their combinations the
> partitioning proposal has to do, it's nearly impossible to explain all of
> them in a single screen (help). There is nothing like a tooltip in YaST (and
> we don't plan to add it).

KDE's Dolphin shows a hierarchical structure (tree) with accompanying
attributes (in this case, the explanation) by using a table structure. I'd be
surprised if whatever graphical library is used for YaST didn't include that.
We only need to explain the things that can be easily explained at first,
surely? Why burden oneself trying to do every conceivable thing immediately?

YaST's logic in this instance is unusually unintuitive, whereas in most other
circumstances it's obvious, so I think we can consider this exceptional.

> As we currently work on a next generation Installer anyway. Plus 
> there is nothing like a "reason" field (localized) in the
> proposal itself.

I understand the annoyance of localization, but, perhaps, naively, I'm expect
that that shouldn't stifle innovations. At the very least because it's not
crucial information, so localization wouldn't need to be a priority (nowadays,
camera-based translators are ubiquitous, at least amongst the youth).

(In reply to Stefan Hundhammer from comment #13)
> You might want to experiment a bit with that in a virtual machine; I suggest
> you create a VM (e.g. in VirtualBox) and give it several virtual disks and
> then play with the whole thing to get a feeling how it behaves.

That's not a bad idea. I'll indeed try that. Although the YaST installer
provided in the Live images obviously isn't recommended for installation, I'd
like to use that in a VM, so is it full-featured there? I have to ask, again,
because this internet connection means I can need a full day to download a
.ISO.