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| Summary: | bad usability of the dialog for creating/labelling/mounting partitions | ||
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| Product: | ALT Linux Desktop | Reporter: | Ivan Zakharyaschev <imz> |
| Component: | installer | Assignee: | Anton V. Boyarshinov <boyarsh> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Andrey Cherepanov <cas> |
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | P2 | CC: | mike |
| Version: | 4.1.0 | ||
| Hardware: | all | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Bug Depends on: | 11668 | ||
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(In reply to comment #0) > Also, the installer does a good job for a newby: it suggests the mountpoints for newly created partitions in a reasonable order (except for > swap, see the other bugreport). https://bugzilla.altlinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18268 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 11668 *** (The presence of this feature in the installer depends on the implementation of this feature in alterator.) |
In the 4.1 Desktop installer, the dialog for partitions+filesystems proceeds in (at least) 3 steps: 1) on the first screen, one specifies the size (among other things) 2) on the second screen, one can enter a label (among other things) ("Создать файловую систему" > "Параметры" > "Метка тома") 3) on another following screen, one is suggested a mountpoint (among other things). This division is quite inconvenient: this order is not logical. The logic should be: first, one decides which part of the filesystem tree one wants to store on the partition being created (i.e., decides on the mountpoint). *Depending on this*, one decides on the size and on the label. Also, the installer does a good job for a newby: it suggests the mountpoints for newly created partitions in a reasonable order (except for swap, see the other bugreport). But this feature turns out to be useless: the person must see beforehand which mountpoint is suggested for the partition he is creating in order to make a reasonable size and a reasonable label (and a reasonable filesystem type). I suggest to select the mountpoint (and to show the suggested mountpoint) as the first thing in the partition+filesystem creation dialog.