Am Mo, 1. Feb, 2021 um 12:15 P. M. schrieb Ancor Gonzalez Sosa
<[email protected]>:
That opens a question - what can we do to prevent our users to get
lost
in the new UI? For me, that actually splits in two questions:
1) What can we adjust in the UI to make the transition smoother and/or
to improve usability in general?
I really think the new UI is an improvement, however I do have a few
small gripes I guess:
* I don't really see the value of "All Devices" view, the sidebar does
its job there
* In case a user has only one device, why not automatically select it as
the main view
* It's impossible to tell the disks apart in the sidebar: users
recognize their disks by the size and the disk make/manufacturer, not
by a randomly assigned drive letter, and a sub suggestion to that:
* I know 2 lines instead of one there may be controversial, but also
maybe think about it, since it could make it more readable if
implemented correctly (though a nightmare for people with hundreds
of disks, view option?)
* Does it make sense to show the disk itself in the view if an user has
selected a disk in a sidebar already (this may break with context
menubar stuff?)
* Does the user have to go to the $device-type view (where $device-type
is raid, lvm, bcache, etc.) to add the type of device, maybe it would
be better if the sidebar had "Add $device_type" if there are 0 of a
given type of device (add device on the menubar? add device under the
sidebar?)
* The $device_type name in the sidebar is a title, it would make sense
for it to be relatively small, which icons definitely break, maybe it
would be wiser to have icon on the devices and not the titles of the
groups to make them stand out better
2) What can we do to communicate the change better to all possible
users?
https://github.com/openSUSE/news-o-o is fairly easy to contribute to,
considering yast.opensuse.org works more or less the same way ;)
The Partitioner is not the only part of YaST under heavy revamping, so
whatever are the answers I expect them to be useful in general for
YaST.
It is a big change and it's very appreciated all things considered, I
may want to make some changes to how things look now though to make it
better looking beyond just UX changes ;)
LCP [Sasi]
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