On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 20:03 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Mon, 03 Dec 2012 08:06:32 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 15:09 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > > > > The user interface for reusing mount-points from existing installations > > > found on the storage device(s) isn't pretty. It's also not too obvious > > > that reused mount-points move from an old installation to the new one only > > > if they are to be reformatted. E.g. "Swap" and "Root", but other > > > mount-points stick to the old installation, even if that one doesn't have > > > a system Root anymore. And that with "Apply Changes" one touches the new > > > installation not the old/unfolded one. > > > > Those aren't mount points: they're labels. Mount points are shown on the > > right. This is obviously confusing people, though. > > I don't think so. The left half of the "Manual Partitioning" screen refers > to mount-points in at least three places, explicitly referring to using > the '+' below to create "mount-points". And what does it show there when > unfolding a '+' entry? Correct, it displays mount-points. Paths such as > "/mnt/storage". Yes, it also displays what might be the corresponding > partition labels, although it writes the first character of such labels in > upper-cases, e.g. "Storage" instead of "storage". Er, I think we have some "+" confusion going on here. The + being referred to is the big + button at the bottom of the pane. The small +es next to 'Fedora 17 x86-64', 'Ubuntu 12.04' or whatever are just expanders: they open up each group. The big + button at the bottom of the pane creates a partition. The mount points displayed within each existing OS group are the mount points *within that OS*. Each of those groups is basically representing that OS to you. We're currently discussing ways of clarifying the whole layout and intent of the left-hand pane. > Btw, the mount-points it displays at the left side of the screen cannot be > copied/dragged to the right side, although there is a large ">" arrow that > apparently is there only to highlight that the left and right side belong > together. ;) I've had to type in the same mount-points on the right side > before clicking "Apply Changes". Not sure about that. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
