Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:17:45 -0700 From: Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> To: Jonathan Anderson <jonathan@freebsd.org> Cc: nathanw@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installer Feedback: Partitioning Message-ID: <CAN6yY1ubKYa=q8sjq%2Bhq8ZyVntDX1iXjBiBADa6puanKtO1-dw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAMGEAwDBUrNCF_TdMOXCkKzwD9CG=XHdXetn3Hb2Y_%2B9DkGV7Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAMGEAwDBUrNCF_TdMOXCkKzwD9CG=XHdXetn3Hb2Y_%2B9DkGV7Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 3:02 AM, Jonathan Anderson <jonathan@freebsd.org> 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.
--
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired
E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com
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