oem-config/Installer top task bar needs to have volume & power button on the right to be consistent with Unity & Ubuntu Desktop Experience

[Jerone Young]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

This has been observed by OEM customers with oem-config, thought the Installer is using the same bar.

The top bar is inconsistent with the end user experience. When a user is in Ubuntu Desktop or Unity. The Power & Volume buttons are located on the right.

Currently in oem-config & the installer they are located on the left.

This is seen as inconsistent and will can cause user confusion for less advanced users.

OEM Config:
http://people.canonical.com/~jerone/launchpad/ubiquity/OEM_CONFIG.png

Installer:
http://people.canonical.com/~jerone/launchpad/ubiquity/Ubuntu_Installer.png

Ubuntu Desktop:
http://people.canonical.com/~jerone/launchpad/ubiquity/Ubuntu_Desktop.png

Unity:
http://people.canonical.com/~jerone/launchpad/ubiquity/Unity.png

[Robbie Williamson (robbiew)]

I don't think the position of the volume and power indicators was an engineering decision, however I will check with my team to be sure.

[Jerone Young (jerone)]

@Robbie
               Can we get someone on the dx team to look at this if it was not an engineering decision?

               Need some explanation for this if it is the case. Thanks!

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

It's an simple enough fix, i just committed a fix to trunk.
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-installer/ubiquity/trunk/revision/4295

[Evan (ev)]

To be clear, this wasn't a design decision, just a failure to set the correct pack direction.

[Robbie Williamson (robbiew)]

Thanks Mario for the fix and Evan for the clarification.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 2.3.17

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ubiquity (2.3.17) maverick; urgency=low

  [ Evan Dandrea ]
  * Fetch the translations for the release_notes_only and
    update_installer_only strings (LP: #629627).
  * Don't use the same name for the error method and GTK label
    (LP: #631046).
  * Re-use the valid username check from user-setup in the GTK UI
    (LP: #631046).
  * Do not cut off the text of the Try and Install buttons by setting
    their width to just the largest initial width of the two
    (LP: #629437).
  * Update the panel to use the new location for the panel background,
    and force a redraw when setting it.
  * If the username only contains non-alphanumeric characters, set the
    hostname to ubuntu-{laptop,desktop}.
  * Replace RELEASE with the release name in the KDE UI finished dialog
    (LP: #628964).
  * Do not look for a full path on non-paths when getting the default
    grub target.
  * Fix a crash when there are no disks present on the system
    (LP: #631766).
  * Don't let the user continue if there are no disks present, or if
    there isn't enough free space on any of them to install.
  * Fix UI bugs in the automatic partitioner page. Better handle
    determining what the desired partitioning recipe is (LP: #630450).
  * Update the KDE partitioning UI to reflect changes to ubi-partman and
    partman-auto.
    - Use the already existent ubiquity variants of the d-i "Guided -" strings
      (LP: #628864).
    - Fix the automatic resize option failing to appear
      (LP: #628897, LP: #628815).
    - Use a combobox to select which disk to use on all options that support
      multiple disks, not just the "use entire disk" option.
  * Add notification area support in the panel.
  * Drop ia64 and sparc.
  * Run nm-applet in the ubiquity GTK session.

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Factor out common /proc/mounts handling into a new
    ubiquity.misc.mount_info function.
  * Remove lpia architecture support.
  * Handle grub-efi when installing on amd64/efi or i386/efi
    subarchitectures (LP: #632642).

  [ Mario Limonciello ]
  * Adjust the fudge factor for showing languages on oem-config page
    due to the changes to the default window size being much bigger.
  * During oem-config's removal of ubiquity, remove other ubiquity
    related items that might have potentially still been on the system
    from a live-helper generated image.
  * Refactor mount_info to also report ro/rw, and let plugininstall
    key off that instead.
  * Set the panel indicators to show up on the right to match the rest
    of the desktop (LP: #632592)
  * Automatic update of included source packages: grub-installer
    1.55ubuntu3.
 -- Mario Limonciello <email address hidden> Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:43:59 -0500