Re: Feature/ui suggestions

[Andrew Clausen]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 08:44:36AM -0000, andreas t wrote:
> feature/ui suggestions for parted
> =====================================
> 
> * More consequent confirmation questions. When creating the first 
> primary fat partition the user has to enter 'OK' to use FAT32 but 
> when creating a second primary fat the user has to enter 'YES'

Well, it depends on the wording, etc.  Also, the translations are
likely to be specific, which means changing such details is likely
to be mildly annoying.  If we do, we should prolly try to do lots
of such corrections one hit... (it also has the side-effect of
making the translator pay closer attention, when it's lots of small
changes like this...)

> * Progress-bar would be lovely. I see it on the todo-list but I'll 
> mention it again :-)

Yep ;)

> * Clearly show the default options on all user interactive 
> questions by presenting them as "[Yes] No" or "YES/no" or something 
> similar.

Already implemented in 1.5.x.

> * Output the (default) choices made when running in --script mode 
> to standard output.

Likewise in 1.5.x (IIRC)

> * ntfs resizing would kick Norman Ghost's butt. (Is the ntfs 
> support in Parted directly dependent on the progress of the ntfs 
> support for the linux kernel?)

It's not dependent on linux kernel support, but rather libntfs.
I haven't checked for a while, but libntfs still needed a fair
bit of work (which I'm happy to do).  This is a high priority for
me on my holiday in .br... but stabilizing 1.5.x is more important.

Andrew