'Revert' context menu on partition reverts all changes, not just the selected one

[David Given]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

In Ubiquity's manual partition editor, if you change several partitions, then decide to undo a change to a single partition, the obvious thing to do is to select the partition and pick 'revert' from its context menu. However, this undoes all changes to all partitions, not just the selected one. (It appears to be just a clone of the Revert button on the UI.)

This is unintuitive and also deeply annoying, since it takes 5-10 seconds to make each change due to the way Ubiquity insists on rescanning the partition tables after every item. This is an area where the workflow needs to be as smooth as possible --- you don't want frustrated users editing partition tables.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Oct 30 22:33:18 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: ubiquity (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

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