On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 10:13 -0800, Brian C. Lane wrote: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 01:39:14AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > One detail from that thread which is becoming a constant refrain on the > > forums is that people are confused when they go to create a partition > > and all they get is 'mount point' and 'size'. Apparently they don't grok > > the 'reverse workflow' and think 'obviously I'll get to decide what type > > of partition it should be and where it should go later', it seems a lot > > of people instead just think 'oh my god! I can't decide what type of > > partition it should be or where it should go!' I think the initial > > simple dialog implants that thought in their head, and then they just > > don't think to look around and find the + expander that exposes most of > > those options. > > > > Hope this doesn't come across as overly negative, and of course there is > > positive feedback on various elements of newUI too - I'm just isolating > > some of the negative feedback to identify areas we can improve on. > > Are these typically new users, or people who have years of experience > with oldui? I think it should be more intuitive for new users, and I can > see how old users are trying to find something familiar and failing :) > > What I don't want to see us doing is starting to patch the ui with hints > here and there, or big blocks of text that are never read. Maybe what we > need are some blog posts going through example scenarios to help > familiarize users with the new way of doing things. I believe it mostly is people who are used to oldUI, yeah. Still, that's a large chunk of our users, and it's still something to try and resolve. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
