Hello Martin,

thanx for the swift reply - I am looking forward to the new mock-up !
I have a question - is this the mail-list where I can express some ideas about the way an initial partitioning is handled (during installation) ?

Cheers,
Nayden


Martin Schmidkunz wrote:
Hi Nayden,
  
Hello everyone,

I just took a look at the plans for the new SUSE partitioner and I
have to admit I already hate it (sorry for the strong language).
    
The mock-ups in the openSUSE Wiki are just one idea how to deal with the
partitioner.
And you just have to play around a little to find the best solution.
(Which means, you have to produce a lot of crap to find a golden nugget :-))
In fact, we are also currently working on some other ideas.
Unfortunately these ideas are not ready for presentation, yet.
As soon as they are, we will share them with you.
  
Why don't we just use the Gparted GUI in the first window and in the
second one we add advanced options (similarly to the current proposal
- separated in two). We do not need to reinvent the wheel, just look
at the products that are really successful in the market lately :
    
Gparted seems to show a good solution for the desktop.
Although it could use some improvement as well.

  
All of these have 1 common feature that makes them winners -
SIMPLICITY. These 3 differentiate themselves through simplicity. In
reality a normal user should not need a partitioner but this does not
mean we can make it as complicated as we'd like. Simplicity is
achieved through different approaches, but I think the two main are :

1. standardization
2. design improvement and simplification
    
Simplicity is approached by simplification in design, I totally agree
with that :-)
Other good approaches are:
* prioritization
* focussing
* ...

  
In the current mock-up we lack both and it really scares me personally.

    
So, thanks for your interest and your feedback.
I hope that we can present you a less scary mock-up within the next
weeks :-)


Enjoy,

Martin