Re: Installer Feedback: Partitioning
On 08/10/11 18:17, Kevin Oberman wrote:
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 3:02 AM, Jonathan Anderson wrote:
Hi,
Love the new installer, but I do have a very small criticism of the
guided partitioning screen: it's unclear at first glance which of the
available buttons ("Create", "Delete", ..., "Exit") means "write the
partitions to disk and carry on to the next step".
I presume that the point of a "guided" setup is to make it easy on
first-time FreeBSD installers; we might want to make it a little
easier still by labeling the relevant button "OK", "Save", "Next",
"Do It!" or something instead of "Exit".
Create and Delete act on the layout design Nothing done at this point
actually writes anything to the disk. I would suggest that "Exit" be changed
to "Continue" and, as I have already suggested, "Save" on the next screen
should be changed to "Commit" or "Execute".
A one-liner on the screen stating that nothing at this point will
write to the disk
might be a good idea, though, just to make people more comfortable.
Thanks for these suggestions! I've changed some of the wording here, and
added help text on the bottom of the screen for all of the buttons.
-Nathan
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Re: Installer Feedback: Partitioning
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 3:02 AM, Jonathan Anderson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Love the new installer, but I do have a very small criticism of the
> guided partitioning screen: it's unclear at first glance which of the
> available buttons ("Create", "Delete", ..., "Exit") means "write the
> partitions to disk and carry on to the next step".
>
> I presume that the point of a "guided" setup is to make it easy on
> first-time FreeBSD installers; we might want to make it a little
> easier still by labeling the relevant button "OK", "Save", "Next",
> "Do It!" or something instead of "Exit".
Create and Delete act on the layout design Nothing done at this point
actually writes anything to the disk. I would suggest that "Exit" be changed
to "Continue" and, as I have already suggested, "Save" on the next screen
should be changed to "Commit" or "Execute".
A one-liner on the screen stating that nothing at this point will
write to the disk
might be a good idea, though, just to make people more comfortable.
--
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired
E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com
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Installer Feedback: Partitioning
Hi,
Love the new installer, but I do have a very small criticism of the
guided partitioning screen: it's unclear at first glance which of the
available buttons ("Create", "Delete", ..., "Exit") means "write the
partitions to disk and carry on to the next step".
I presume that the point of a "guided" setup is to make it easy on
first-time FreeBSD installers; we might want to make it a little
easier still by labelling the relevant button "OK", "Save", "Next",
"Do It!" or something instead of "Exit".
Jon
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Jonathan Anderson
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http://freebsd.org/~jonathan/
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