Re: Idea for changing RAID selection UI

[Stephanie Manuel <stephaniemanuel16@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Martin,

That makes sense, and I had the same initial thought. Mairin explained to me that this could be confusing for users who only know the features they want and are not familiar with the RAID levels. Since the dropdown is at the top, they may feel they need to select a level from the dropdown which could be confusing for them; having the checkboxes allows the user to select the features they want, not having to worry about which RAID level means what. We are more concerned with users who do not know the specific RAID levels because there are more users familiar with the features rather than the specific RAID levels. We have the different radio buttons for the few users that want to select the specific RAID level. 

I hope this makes sense. I've attached a quick mockup I did of your suggestion to make sure I understood what you meant and to see what other people think about it. :)

Thanks,

Stephanie

On Feb 14, 2013, at 10:41 PM, Martin Banas wrote:

Hi,

Could it work if you combine both screens to one? I mean on the top there could be a drop down menu (probably same type as "Technology" one) with RAID levels, and in the bottom there would be all the features.

By selection RAID level from drop down menu, appropriate features would be checked, and vice versa. The level in drop down menu have to be updated immediately when user selects some features, not after hitting "Apply changes" or whatever. And the same vice versa.. :)

Do you think it makes sense?

Regards,
Martin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Máirín Duffy" <duffy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Discussion of Development and Customization of the Red Hat Linux Installer" <anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Stephanie Manuel" <stephaniemanuel16@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 11:50:24 PM
Subject: Idea for changing RAID selection UI

Hi folks,

Stephanie and I have been doing some thinking about improving the RAID
selection UI in Anaconda. Stephanie put together a couple of mockups to
show one of our ideas - basically, by default we'd allow users to pick
RAID via 'features' the way the UI is in F18, but we'd provide an
optional radio button you could select to indicate a specific RAID level
if you have a target RAID # you need to go for.

Her mockups are here:

http://linuxgrrl.com/fedora-ux/Projects/Anaconda/Sketches/RAID%20doom/RAID-doom_by-feature.png

http://linuxgrrl.com/fedora-ux/Projects/Anaconda/Sketches/RAID%20doom/RAID-doom_by-level.png

Do you think something like this would be a workable improvement to the UI?

~m

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