Comment 19 for bug 325958
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| Evan (ev) wrote Re: Jaunty Alpha 4: Ubiquity windows does not fit on 1024x600 screen | #19 |
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I've looked into this a bit further.
If I pack the "Who are you?" page into a scrolled window, the size shrinks down to 694x371 until I get to the automatic partitioning page, where it jumps up to 694x539 (when two drives are present). Part of the problem here seems to be the partition bars are requesting an allocation that is exactly twice as tall as it needs to be. I'm looking into this now.
Equally, the more disks are present, the more this page is going to grow. Colin suggested in bug 320977 that we pack the automatic partitioning page in a scrolled window as well. But late in the Jaunty cycle I was speaking with Matthew Paul Thomas about the UI of this page and he suggested a number of changes, among them putting the drives in a drop down box and moving it to the top of the page, which I mocked up (beneath some of his other mock-ups) here [1].
I'm not suggesting that we try to move from "select an option, then a disk" to "select a disk, then an option" by moving the disk selection to the top of the page. But perhaps putting the disks in a drop-down box instead of radio buttons, in the same place on the page, would be a good start.
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