"Starting up the partitioner" uses separate window misleadingly
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Evan | ||
Lucid |
Fix Released
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Low
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Evan |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: ubiquity
Ubuntu Jaunty alpha 5
1. At the "Keyboard layout" step, click "Forward".
What happens:
* Still on the "Keyboard layout" step, a progress window appears briefly saying "Starting up the partitioner", "Starting up the partitioner" again, and some other text too brief to read.
* The window flies away a couple of seconds later.
* A few seconds after that, the installer finally switches to the "Prepare disk space" step.
Showing progress in a separate window implies that the original window can be closed or used for something else at the same time, but in this case it can't.
What should happen:
* Progress of starting the partitioner and scanning the partitions should be displayed in the installer window. One obvious way of doing this would be centering the progress bar and text inside the otherwise-empty "Prepare disk space" step itself. (To be tasteful, the progress bar should take up only about half the width of the Ubiquity window.) When the scanning has finished, the progress bar and text could disappear and be replaced by the usual partitioning options.
Changed in ubiquity: | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Colin Watson (cjwatson) |
The same progress bar is used at various other points while the partitioner is working, particularly in the advanced partitioning screen; there isn't so much empty space to use there, and I would prefer the progress indicator to have the same appearance in both cases. Perhaps this is a case where a status bar would be appropriate?