On Fri, 2014-02-21 at 04:23 -0500, Christian Schaller wrote: > > 1. Remove Manual/Custom partitioning path entirely. The Tech Spec doesn't > > specifically say only the default path should become minimalist. > > It is still early days for the tech spec so I think we all want to flesh out > things a lot more and figure out the details, so any help with that is appreciated. > I don't think removing the manual partitioning is part of anyones plan, although > maybe streamlining it a bit would be good, haven't looked at it in a while, but > I am sure the partitioning tool exposes a lot of stuff currently that you are quite > unlikely to want to do on a normal desktop/laptop. I got a laptop at home I need to > reinstall, so I will investigate and take notes this weekend. There's kind of a problem here in that any kind of 'streamlining' is likely going to ultimately add *more* complexity and hence fragility into the installer codebase, because we'll have two divergent paths - 'full fat' and 'streamlined' custom partitioning - used by different products. It would be relatively simple to just disallow access to custom partitioning entirely in a variant build - I'm not sure we'd really want to do it, but it's at least simpler to implement and more likely to actually result in improved robustness than trying to do a 'streamlined' version. > > 2. Remove all partition scheme options from the Automatic/Guided path. Two > > options isn't the minimum possible, no option is. > > I think the idea behind part 2 is to say that we don't need to offer features in > the desktop installer for setting up enterprise style storage systems or hardware. This is already fairly well hidden in the current design, at least to my eye - but let us know what you think when you talke a look. It also kinda depends what you mean by 'enterprise style', I guess, but there's one fairly subtle button that lets you into the interface for configuring iSCSI and multipath and so forth, and if you don't click it, you're fine. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
