On Sun, 24 Jul 2011, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > Can you please describe what you didn't like about it, and what you would > prefer be changed? "Reminiscent of the 1980s" is not really helpful, > especially given that the new installer in fact looks very much like > sysinstall, which you seemed to like. For myself, two things jumped out: 1. The use of tab and enter in the dialogs is different enough to be a problem, particularly when other dialogs like port options still work as before. 2. The disk setup screen is unclear, or unintuitive, at least for me. For reference, here's a copy: Please review the disk setup. When complete, press the Exit button. ad0 8.7 GB GPT ad0p1 64 KB freebsd-boot ad0p2 8.3 GB freebsd-ufs / ad0p3 446 MB freebsd-swap none <Create> <Delete> <Modify> <Revert> < Auto > < Exit > 1. Extending the highlight bar the whole width of the window would help to show what is being operated on. 2. The options don't always really apply. Create when ad0 is highlighted leads the user to think they can create a new device, like ad1. But it will really create another partition. Delete on ad0 deletes all the partitions, not ad0. No warning, either. 3. Tab in the Modify partition window doesn't go to the next field, but to the OK button. Backtab closes the window instead of going back a field. 4. "The partition scheme requires a boot partition". But there's one already there. Possibly this is a bug. ad0 8.7 GB GPT ad0p1 64 KB freebsd-boot ad0p2 8.3 GB freebsd-ufs / ad0p3 446 MB freebsd-swap none ad0p4 64 KB freebsd-boot ad0p5 926 KB freebsd-ufs / 5. This one's about method rather than user interface... Auto creation should probably follow the standard of separate partitions for /, swap, /var, /tmp, and /usr. Swap at the end of the disk will be slower, and combining all the filesystems is a big change.Received on Mon Jul 25 2011 - 03:23:30 UTC
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