Re: anaconda design mockups

Hi David
I think that anaconda does require more smarts in the drive/selection area.I can't understand why we can't flip the role of the software for customization.Here is an example, building the /etc/fstab
Directory  [location]    [format]
[/       ] [/dev/sb3  ]  [ext4  ]    «-- user provides this
[/root   ] [/dev/sdc2]   [format]     «-- user provides this[/opt    ] [          ]  [format]     «-- user provides this   [/swap   ] [          ]  [format]     «-- user provides this[/home   ] [          ]  [format]     «-- user provides this[/boot   ] [          ] [format]     «-- user provides this[biosboot] [          ]  [format]   «-- user provides this
[add +]       (for /usr, /var /private    additional /swaps and files, system and end-user)    
 
Regards 
 Leslie
 Mr. Leslie Satenstein
Montréal Québec, Canada



 
      From: David Shea <[email protected]>
 To: [email protected] 
 Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 9:46 AM
 Subject: Re: anaconda design mockups
   
On 02/24/2016 05:14 AM, Garrett LeSage wrote:
> So, what do you think?

Some first impressions:

Having a case to go to the storage resize screen directly after the 
welcome screen feels to me like a return to the linear model. I get that 
Workstation wants to get rid of custom partitioning, but what about 
drive selection? Say a user has two hard drives and wants to install 
Fedora to one of them. I feel like this approach to storage simplifies 
things a step too far.

Turning spokes into dialogs does seem to fix the problem of not knowing 
where the Done button is (and I do like the idea of a Cancel button even 
if it'll be a pain to implement), but at the loss of a good bit of 
screen real estate. I don't want anaconda to go down the road of having 
completely different widget sets for workstation and server, and no 
matter how much we simplify storage for workstation, server is still 
going to have to configure iSCSI and multipath and split it all up into 
47 different partitions, all at 800x600.

Do you think that the animations between screens helps any with the 
confusion of how to get out of any particular screen? They're new in F22 
and not shown in live VMs for annoying technical reasons.

I don't think the comparisons with gnome-control-center are exactly 
fair. Anaconda has used the suggested-action button class since F21 to 
make the button more visible. That it now gets hidden as blue-on-blue is 
a misfortune of themeing that could be changed (as in the button color 
could be the changed, not necessarily the Fedora blue background). 
gnome-control-center does not set the style class on its back button and 
it's hidden up in the header bar, which has a bunch of other stuff going on.

The last screen with all the ad banners seems really crowded with ads. 
It makes me think of 
https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/uploads/post-1-1159903128.jpg


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