Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: ubiquity
When a user first sees "Prepare Partitions" (as it works in Feisty
Herd4), the user might think that all they need to do is select
(highlight) the "free space" and click Forward to have Feisty installed
there. There is no warning or informational feedback at the time that
the user clicks the "Forward" button that indicates that the user didn't
take any action.
How to reproduce:
Launch LiveCD Installer,
At "Prepare Disk Space", select "Manual" and then click the Forward button.
At "Prepare Partitions", select "free space" (assuming disk has free space on
it) then click the Forward button.
User is brought to next step, "Step 7 of 8" ("Who are you?"), without any
feedback that there were no partition changes made.
There is, however, a bit of direction given at the bottom of the window that
reads:
"Make sure to allocate space for a root partition ("/"), with a minimum size
of 2GB, and a swap partition of at least 256MB."
However, at least one user (myself) thought that by selecting the "free
space" I was actually specifying where to create a partition.
There isn't a severe problem as the "no action taken" condition is
caught a bit later... after the user begins the install from Step 8 of 8
("Ready to install"), if no partition was marked as the root partition
an error message is displayed and the user can start over.
A quick fix might be to simply check if any partition was added or
changed during the "Prepare Partitions" step. If user clicked the
Forward button without making changes, then it is probably safe to
assume they didn't realize that they were supposed to use that screen to
create and/or format the partition they want to install into (and then
to mark it as the root ("/") mount point). A message box telling the
user that no changes were made, "Continue, / Go Back", would probably
help. (Re-thinking the user-interface on this a little would be even
better ... ).
** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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[Ubiquity] Prepare Partitions doesn't guide user, not intuitive
https://launchpad.net/bugs/86106
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