Dearadh Oscailte Abú! (Open Design Forever!)
Remix of Cartoon Rattlesnake by Sirrob01, Spray Paint in Action by Guillaume W., and Tango Drive Hard Disk by Warszawianka on OpenClipArt. Yes, that is a snake spraying RAID onto a pile of disks. So I think out of all of the feedback we got about the Anaconda UI redesign, the one piece of the …
Remixed version of bottles by Tomas Arad on OpenClipArt. You must be thinking: “What do you mean by refreshing storage? I didn’t think you could drink storage?” No, sad to say, this blog post isn’t about the type of refreshment you get from a crisp cold glass of Anaconda Cola (yum!) It’s about the action …
Bootloading So this is what the Fedora 16 bootloader configuration UI looked like: It allowed you to do a few things: Opt out of installing a bootloader at all. Specify whether you want the bootloader to install to the MBR or to /boot on the first-order physical disk. (You could go back to disk selection …
So you’re getting a blog post on this because I missed having something to show Garrett before he finished work for the day (he’s several timezones ahead of me and I was overly slow.) 🙂 This may be crispier than it would have been had I caught him. Let me catch you up on where …
We’ve been having a bit of a Anaconda custom partitioning UI thrown down the past couple of days in #anaconda to try to make some more progress on it. You may recall, the direction we’d most recently taken the mockups involved a UI centered around the mount points that are / will be created on …
So with some great feedback and great suggestions from you, I’ve been iterating more on the partition resize screen for Anaconda. I started out by poking around with the visual design of the drag handles, and Robin had the idea to make the space between partitions draggable and to use a model where you only …
So there’s a path in the storage flow of the Fedora installer redesign where if you don’t have enough free disk space to complete an install right now, but you have enough latent space available in your partitions if you were to shrink them. We offer to let you shrink them to continue the install …
Partitioning personas Redesigning the UI for something as complex as an OS installer has the potential to be disruptive to some classes of users, so in designing and re-designing and re-re-designing the partitioning screens for Fedora’s installer, we’d like to make sure you’re going to be covered. Do any of these cases describe you, and …
Over the past couple of months I have been working with Thomas Woerner on some enhancements to and new UI for Fedora’s firewall controls. These additions are part of Thomas’s work in adding the concept of firewall ‘zones’ to Fedora to simplify firewall configuration and help make it easier for folks to keep their computers …
So, last time we chatted about Fedora’s installer redesign, we walked through how users would select which disks they’d like to be part of the install. Once our intrepid installer users have selected disks to install to, they should be set and the install will just work. (Okay, there’s the case where they have to …