Hi,
Some user feedback and usability testing we've done indicates that
having custom partitioning accessible only by a pop up dialog attached
to the 'done' in the storage spoke is confusing - people search for
custom partitioning on the first storage spoke screen, don't see it,
give up and hit done, then they see it.
I think we should consider providing a better pathway to it on the main
screen rather than hiding it on the dialog. I think I was overzealous in
trying to shield less-technical ("non-Pokemon") users from it in the
original mockups and unnecessarily hurt the users wanting to access
custom part.
We had a discussion about this in IRC today, and after a few iterations
(we started with
http://linuxgrrl.com/fedora-ux/Projects/Anaconda/Sketches/Straight-To-CustomPart/custom-part-button.png
and iterated from there) I put some more work into a set of mockups that
might work. The thing is, it's hard to just add a button here or move
something there without affecting a lot of other things - in this case,
the display of the dialog on exit from storage entirely and the
encryption and autopart type options.
Okay so here's a little walkthrough:
AUTO-PART USER
==============
1) You click on the storage spoke icon and you see this:
http://linuxgrrl.com/fedora-ux/Projects/Anaconda/Sketches/Straight-To-CustomPart/inst-dest-horiz.png
You might opt-into disk encryption, and you leave everything else alone.
2) You click 'Done' in the upper left corner. You go straight to the
hub. Yeh. So basically:
http://linuxgrrl.com/fedora-ux/Projects/Anaconda/Sketches/Straight-To-CustomPart/dialog1.png
Anything you would have been able to do in the dialog you already did in
the main window. Except for choosing auto-part type. If you're not going
into custom part, is the default auto-part type good enough? If not, the
main screen design will need more thinking.
CUSTOM PART USER
================
1) You click on the storage spoke icon and you see this:
http://linuxgrrl.com/fedora-ux/Projects/Anaconda/Sketches/Straight-To-CustomPart/inst-dest-horiz.png
2) You click on the radio button that says "I will configure
partitioning" and hit Done. Then you'll see this:
http://linuxgrrl.com/fedora-ux/Projects/Anaconda/Sketches/Straight-To-CustomPart/cp-ap-with-dropdown.png
You pick the auto part type you want in the dropdown and hit create to
let it do its thing and then tweak accordingly. Or you can start from
scratch if you're into that.
3) You click on the 'done' button in the upper left corner of custom
part and it does the same as it does now (summary of changes, then back
to the hub)
RECLAIM DISK SPACE POP-UP
=========================
Just a small mod to this one, since encrypt and autopart type are
available else where, drop them:
http://linuxgrrl.com/fedora-ux/Projects/Anaconda/Sketches/Straight-To-CustomPart/dialog2.png
NO DISK SPACE POP-UP
====================
No changes to this guy:
http://linuxgrrl.com/fedora-ux/Projects/Anaconda/Sketches/Straight-To-CustomPart/dialog3.png
Does this make sense? I know Chris had concerns about having two columns
of options on the screen because translations can get lengthy, so I cut
the text length substantially and did a vertical stack of options, but I
made the radio buttons horizontally aligned (which the HIG actually
allows for, who knew.) I also scaled the disk icon down to 96x96,
although 64x64 might work better (need to account for icon height of
network disks too.)
The only sticking point here is that auto-part folks won't get to choose
their flavor unless they go into custom. But maybe it's good, people who
don't really know the difference won't have to even make the choice. And
it's easy enough to go into custom, hit auto part for the flavor you
want, and get out?
Thoughts?
~m
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