Ubiquity, editing partitions from the keyboard?

[Henrik Nilsen Omma]

Al Puzzuoli wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>  
> I am attempting to manually edit partitions in ubiquity, and there 
> doesn't appear to be an obvious way to do much of anything useful with 
> the keyboard at this point.  I  am able to arrow through the tree 
> view, in order to select a partition on which I would like to perform 
> an operation.  I can then tab to the tool bar, but when I attempt to 
> arrow through the command buttons, it seems as if not all of them are 
> getting focus.  All I can find is a delete button, and another button 
> which is being read as "go to last."    The machine in question is 
> currently running XP, and I want to install Edgy using dev/hda2 as my 
> root filesystem, and dev/hda5 as my swap space.  All these partitions 
> are already created, I just need to be able to tell the installer how 
> to use them.
>  
> Am I missing something, or are there indeed accessibility issues that 
> still need to be addressed?
>  

I have managed to do this purely with the keyboard in the past, but I 
agree that the usability is poor.

A rewrite is in the works for Edgy: 
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ubiquity/AdvancedPartitionerRewrite

But it is not quite clear that it will make it in time.

- Henrik