On 1/28/20 12:45 PM, Steffen Winterfeldt wrote:
On Tue, 28 Jan 2020, Lukas Ocilka wrote:
On 1/23/20 3:36 PM, David Díaz wrote:
The question is simple, should we really display the "Overview" tab by default? During the planning, it seems to some of us that it is useless most of the time. Taking a disk with three partitions as an example, we think it could be more practical to directly land in the "Partitions" tab.
IMHO, there are two things we can do to improve the UX here. One thing is to remember the last selected tab (David is already working on it), and the second thing is to propose the most suitable landing tab when the user goes to a device for the first time. For that second point I propose something like the following: * For a disk without partition table --> "Overview" tab. * For a disk with partition table -> "Partitions" tab. * For a LVM Volume Group -> always "Logical Volumes" tab. * For a MD RAID without partition table --> "Overview" tab. * For a MD RAID with partition table -> "Partitions" tab.
- YaST Disk starts at "Available storage on *" and I never found it any useful as it contains everything mixed together
Though this was not the original question, this is the one point I would fully agree to.
I don't care much either way whether or not 'Overview' is per default selected.
But rather, I believe a point could be made that the storage UI in general deserves some re-thinking.
The basic concept had been made when the new storage code started and was still quite limited. Meanwhile a lot of functionality has been added and the UI feels, let's say, 'untidy'.
You usually get things done but I more or less just 'click around' until I find the spot where I can do my changes.
And, to get back to the topic: the 'Overview' tab is sticking out beacuse it is visually different from (ok, nearly) all other views that show some kind of table. It just feels wrong when you see it.
So, please no one-shot fix just because someone screemed.
Well, I agree we need to re-think the UI of the Expert Partitioner, but I guess that would be an Epic for SLE-16. Meanwhile, we can do small improvements at the same time we start supporting new features for SLE-15. -- José Iván López González YaST Team at SUSE LINUX GmbH IRC: jilopez -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: yast-devel+owner@opensuse.org