idea/tip for 6.04

matt nicholson wrote:
> i've been using ubuntu for about a year now and have basically nothing 
> but positive things to say about it all along. i was in the hoary and 
> breezy development builds early in the game and plan to do the same with 
> dapper.
> 
> this weekend i installed breezy on my girlfriends pc for her, and for 
> the first time ever (i never needed to before) used the installers 
> ability to resize an NTFS partition.
> 
> i was wondering if it would be possible to add some sort of 
> dialog/progress bar/ something to this progress in the installer. once i 
> opted to resize and said "okay" the installer almost seemed to hang. i 
> knew it was doing something from all the disk activity, but it never 
> showed anything but a completely blank blue screen with the grey/white 
> status bar at the bottom, saying nothing.
> 
> i just think that, during the phase of resizing a partition which, for a 
> new user may be scary, and can take a bit of time, some progress 
> bar/dialog, at the very least letting them know its "working" would be 
> best.
> 
I'd absolutely support this suggestion. It's never a good thing during an install to have it appear like its frozen.
It can freak users out majorly ;)
Which we don't want to do hehe...
> keep up the great work. i wish i was at UBZ.
> 
> mat nicholson
> sjoeboo at sjoeboo.com
> sjoeboo.com
> 
> 


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