Comment 2 for bug 81676

For me this is an usability bug. You need to have a coherent way to name partitions in the installation system, not because of purely estetic reasons, but because the only way to know the contents of a partition is by going trough "my computer". There is no way to browse partitions from the partition editor (which would make this usability problem disappear, too, in a much more elegant way).

Without being an "hacker" you have no way to tell which partition you are actually going to resize. The release of ubuntu does not matter since all releases of ubuntu are affected by this problem.

I personally don't care if you want to close this bug. Since in my opinion this is debatable, tough, I kindly ask you to at least try to discuss if this is a bug or not on the ubuntu-devel mailing list. Please try to understand that I ask you this for just one reason: usability bugs are always questionable, but I reported many of them and don't want my (very basic and rough) analysis work to be completely wasted.

I can try to make you change your mind on this being a bug as follows: the solution to this problem, which exists, is not to implement a new component, but rather to fix current code by adding one more piece of information to the partition label in the partition editor. This is a matter of not too many lines of code I suppose, while brainstorm seems to be oriented towards missing components in ubuntu and new features.

If there is another way to tell what are the contents of the partition you're going to resize (e.g. because you have three windows partitions on a drive and want to tell which one is the empty one), just tell me, I may be wrong in my considerations.