[haiku-development] RFC: DriveSetup BikeShed proposal 1

  • From: Alexander von Gluck <kallisti5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2012 10:57:25 -0500

A quick gui change question.

Currently the DriveSetup menus are laid out as follows:

Disk->Format
Disk->Eject
Disk->Surface Test

Partition->Create
Partition->Initialize->Intel Extended Partition
Partition->Initialize->Intel Partition Map
Partition->Initialize->EFI GUID Partition Map
Partition->Initialize->Be File System
Partition->Delete
Partition->Mount
..


I know this layout is closer to the BeOS native Layout, but it seems pretty confusing for newbies.

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Any thoughts on this different layout?

  Disk->Format
* Disk->Initialize->Intel Partition Map
* Disk->Initialize->EFI GUID Partition Map
  Disk->Eject
  Disk->Surface Test

  Partition->Create
* Partition->Format->Intel Extended Partition  (or leaving it Initialize->?)
* Partition->Format->Be File System  (or leaving it Initialize->?)
  Partition->Delete
  Partition->Mount
  ..


-- Alex

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