-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2008-06-26 at 22:36 +0100, Pete Connolly wrote:
On Thursday 26 June 2008 22:17:48 Felix Miata wrote:
On 2008/06/26 22:05 (GMT+0100) Pete Connolly apparently typed:
I noticed on the partitioner earlier, when you delete a partition (as I tested with my HP_RECOVERY partiton), the partition is immediately removed from the screen, even though it still exists on disk, and I was able to cancel safely. This isn't good feedback to the user, and suggests that what they have done is immediate, even though the change hasn't been commited. I might have to file this as a seperate problem on bugzilla, away from the colour thing.
I'm sure if you do it will get dismissed, either WONTFIX or INVALID. Nothing gets written to disk until the whole plan is mapped and you click OK to proceed with the installation, _after_ you're done with package selection, to confirm all that went before is what you really want to do.
Hi Felix
Possibly - the whole partitioning process is preceded by a suitable warning that you should be an expert in disk organsiation prior to using it, but I still think keeping deleted partitions in the list, flagged as "about to be deleted", would be a fairly simple change and one that helps even an expert user.
I'll file a bug tomorrow and see what happens. Lets hope you're wrong :)
Normal usage on most partitioners is not to write changes till the end. You delete and add or modify partitions, and nothing is done till you say "write". If you abort, then nothing is done. I would "hate" seeing "to be deleted" partitions still around confusing me when I want to add new partitions. After all, the expert partitioner is for experts, and the humble expert in me finds it very clear as it is now. More clutter would not be useful. O:-) Partitions to be formatted are marked with "F", by the way. Good enough. Perhaps what could be added is a button to present a list of changes: these are going to be deleted, these are going to be created, these are going to be formatted, etc. The window exists, in a fashion, it displays automatically when you say "go ahead". - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIZDBWtTMYHG2NR9URArJ0AJ936Jx/nhb6+pWkGKm/OeoLdBa33ACcDM+Q SpCXWZBodW26HcpIrWmo9BQ= =3HwW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org