From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 21 19:21:06 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29D8C106566C for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 19:21:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from adsum.doit.wisc.edu (adsum.doit.wisc.edu [144.92.197.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0BE68FC0A for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 19:21:05 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; format=flowed Received: from avs-daemon.smtpauth1.wiscmail.wisc.edu by smtpauth1.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) id <0LQA00F04LR5W900@smtpauth1.wiscmail.wisc.edu>; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 14:21:05 -0500 (CDT) Received: from comporellon.tachypleus.net ([unknown] [76.210.68.180]) by smtpauth1.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) with ESMTPSA id <0LQA006FSLR28I20@smtpauth1.wiscmail.wisc.edu>; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 14:21:03 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 14:21:02 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn In-reply-to: To: Kevin Oberman Message-id: <4E515A9E.90309@freebsd.org> X-Spam-Report: AuthenticatedSender=yes, SenderIP=76.210.68.180 X-Spam-PmxInfo: Server=avs-11, Version=5.6.1.2065439, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.376379, Antispam-Data: 2011.8.21.190913, SenderIP=76.210.68.180 References: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110819 Thunderbird/6.0 Cc: current@freebsd.org, Jonathan Anderson Subject: Re: Installer Feedback: Partitioning X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 19:21:06 -0000 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