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On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 17:26:24 +0100
Ancor Gonzalez Sosa
On 02/25/2016 03:56 PM, jdd wrote:
Le 25/02/2016 15:19, jdd a écrit :
may be it's the moment to bring this up?
I agree that part needs some love but...
I just got a new test with Leap,
of the three options, the first (Edit Proposal Settings) is of no use there, and it's repeated on Create Partition Setup
It offers a fast and easy way to select the default filesystem, to choose if you want a separate /home partition. I believe it's quite used, in fact.
Expert Partitioner
is not really for expert, as it simply shows the present situation *and mount points filled*, so it simply is a "Edit proposal Settings"
The expert partitioner allows you to create/resize/delete partitions, to define encryption, software RAID, LVM... Almost the opposite of "not for experts" or "simply shows the present situation".
I think the main difference is that in Edit Proposal Settings we still guarantie that result will work and you do not commit suicide. Expert partitioner on other hand allows very complex setup and even if there is some popups for known problems, you still have razor in hand and can cut itself very hard that removes all data on all disks, remove OEM recovery partition that can fix it and also confuse BIOS or EFI so much, that it refuse to start your computer. And of course there is no guarantie that others module can work with your own expert storage configuration ( e.g. bootloader is quite sensitive if architecture require specific setup ).
Create Partition Setup
first option: use disk:
It's true that you can also reach the proposal settings from here. But I think there are some non-obvious differences.
I think we plan to discuss it in near future with our UI/UX expert who complain in past and suggest some improvements which we do not finish.
second option: true expert place
This takes you to the same point than "expert partitioner". Why is this the "true" real expert place compared to the previous one? Is the same dialog with the same options.
agreed, identical one.
so two possibility (among many):
* very simple: just edit the first screen mockup, remove the menu entry "Edit Proposal Settings", change the menu entry "Expert Partitioner" to the name "Edit Proposal Settings". So two options in place of three...
* much more work: do the first point, then rethink the "Create Partition Setup", select hard disk and go next (without selecting expert). This would need much more discussion, not fitted here and much more work.
this makes expert seems to be a step more deep (but it was already there). Anyway no expert mode should be too easily accessible.
(did not look at TW. Is your new work visible on some TW version?) thanks jdd
In short. Yes, this needs to be improved but we need a better analysis about the available options and why are they there. They are clearly counterintuitive, since I honestly think you misunderstood most of them. ;-)
To late for this sprint (already started yesterday)... but maybe for the next one.
I think plan is to do it together with new libstorage backend, so I hope there will be changed in near future. Josef
Cheers.
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