On Sun, 24 Jul 2011, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
Can you please describe what you didn't like about it, and what you would
prefer be changed? "Reminiscent of the 1980s" is not really helpful,
especially given that the new installer in fact looks very much like
sysinstall, which you seemed to like.
For myself, two things jumped out:
1. The use of tab and enter in the dialogs is different enough to be a
problem, particularly when other dialogs like port options still work as
before.
2. The disk setup screen is unclear, or unintuitive, at least for me.
For reference, here's a copy:
Please review the disk setup. When complete, press
the Exit button.
ad0 8.7 GB GPT
ad0p1 64 KB freebsd-boot
ad0p2 8.3 GB freebsd-ufs /
ad0p3 446 MB freebsd-swap none
<Create> <Delete> <Modify> <Revert> < Auto > < Exit >
1. Extending the highlight bar the whole width of the window would
help to show what is being operated on.
2. The options don't always really apply. Create when ad0 is
highlighted leads the user to think they can create a new device, like
ad1. But it will really create another partition. Delete on ad0
deletes all the partitions, not ad0. No warning, either.
3. Tab in the Modify partition window doesn't go to the next field, but
to the OK button. Backtab closes the window instead of going back a
field.
4. "The partition scheme requires a boot partition". But there's one
already there. Possibly this is a bug.
ad0 8.7 GB GPT
ad0p1 64 KB freebsd-boot
ad0p2 8.3 GB freebsd-ufs /
ad0p3 446 MB freebsd-swap none
ad0p4 64 KB freebsd-boot
ad0p5 926 KB freebsd-ufs /
5. This one's about method rather than user interface... Auto creation
should probably follow the standard of separate partitions for /, swap,
/var, /tmp, and /usr. Swap at the end of the disk will be slower, and
combining all the filesystems is a big change.
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