On Wed, 2013-06-12 at 12:20 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:09:02 -0700 > Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > Actually, just calling it "Next" instead of "Done" would help a lot > > > to provide some hope that you might eventually get to select partitions :-). > > > > Like I said, that's exactly what it was labeled before, and people > > didn't like that either (check F18). > > I'm pretty sure the interface I would find most useful that should > also solve the problem of protecting disks is this: > > Go directly to a tree of disks and partitions and free space. > > The disks are all "locked". They probably have a lock icon next > to them. You can do readonly operations on locked disks, but > not clobber anything. > > The tree contains a comment field out to the side which can > include things like the kernel installed on that partition, > the label of that parition, etc. Or for disks the model > and serial number. But kernels are not roots of trees > (that is just utter nonsense). > > You have to unlock a disk first to be able to reformat or > delete partitions and use free space. > > So now there are no extra screens to go through on a hope > and a prayer and disks are protected unless you unlock them. That's a complete re-design of partitioning, and way beyond the scope we're talking about here. I doubt the anaconda team would go with that idea, but anyway, you'd need to propose that as a complete partitioning workflow re-design, with justifications and mockups and etc etc, not just in a test@ thread. -- 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
