A status bar would be quite inappropriate in an assistant-style window such as the installer. And I haven't been able to think of any other way to present a progress indicator so that it would be suitable both when launching the partitioner and when rereading the partition table. However, I think the increase in calmness and visual stability from embedding progress feedback for both those things into the main window outweighs any benefit from consistency in the current progress window looking the same.
So, I suggest that while waiting for the partitioner to launch, the spinner should be centered in the pane. And whenever rereading the partition table, the spinner should be placed immediately below the bottom right corner of the partition table, preceded by brief text something like "Recalculating partitions…". (I'm not sure what the exact text should be, because I don't know why the partitioner needs to reread the partition table so often instead of trusting its internally- remembered state.) The baseline of that text should line up exactly with the baseline of the buttons below the bottom left corner of the partition table. -- "Starting up the partitioner" uses separate window misleadingly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/336751 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
