Hi,
vpodzime mentioned BZ 1094856 to me earlier today in IRC. Basically,
when you are in custom partitioning and click on the little
wrench/screwdriver icon to get to the 'Configure Mount Point' dialog (so
you can pick which disks/devices your mount point will live on), your
selection doesn't apply until you hit the 'Update Settings' button on
the right hand side of the main dialog.
This actually came up in a usability test this past Feb as well, so it's
definitely not just one person running into the confusion. The issue is
that the change is made in a dialog launched from the left, but the
application button is on the main screen and towards the right.
So we had the idea in IRC to move the disk selection tool over to the
right hand side, so the button would look more like it would apply to
it. I also designed it such that there's a little 'preview' of the disks
the mount point is associated with so it looks like you'd have to hit
the update settings button (if that makes sense.)
Of course, being a designer and a pain in the ass, I made some purely
aesthetic tweaks to try to help the flow of the screen and general
cleanliness of the layout since we're adding yet another element to an
already-cluttered area:
- I mocked this up with the widget labels vertically above the widgets
rather than to the left. GTK+ should allow for this (and *hopefully*
it's just a matter of tweaking a single boolean.) This gives the widgets
a lot more room to breathe and enables the next point...
- I put the widgets in columns to group items that are roughly related
together. For example, the volume group selection is now vertically
grouped with the device type, whereas the filesystem is in a column to
the right of that. The name and label and capacity are grouped together
in one column since those are all kind of basic metadata kind of things,
then the mountpoint and the disk selection are grouped together in the
right column since they both vaguely pertain to the 'location' of the
partition.
Anyway here is the before (as it currently looks in RHEL 7.0 GA):
http://linuxgrrl.com/fedora-ux/Projects/Anaconda/Sketches/Move-Device-Selection-Custom-Part/before.png
And here is the after:
http://linuxgrrl.com/fedora-ux/Projects/Anaconda/Sketches/Move-Device-Selection-Custom-Part/after.png
It kind of works, right? What do you think? Is the mucking about doable
here?
~m
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