Ubiquity fix for side-by-side installation

[Tom Davies]

Hi :)  
The partition sizes these days are at least an order of magnitude larger.  

In the broken one it shows Win7 partition of around 2Gb which is a bit small even for Win98.  Win7 really needs around 50Gb in order to function smoothly.  I'm sure their marketing claims much less but that results in a slow and cranky system.  I think in screenshots like that we should be responsible and give them at least 50Gb.  

Ubuntu nowadays really needs at least 15Gb although it can cope with 10Gb (adding / and /home together).  While just / on it's own can be a lot smaller i think explaining that to noobs gives them a layer of complexity that would be best avoided for their first few installs.  Lubuntu can probably cope with 8Gb or perhaps even less.  

I think showing the smallest safe  sizes shows one of the many advantages of *buntu over Windows.  With Ubuntu a drive has more free space for more episodes of Star Trek (or whatever).  


The fixed screen-shots look really good in my opinion.  Nice design work there! (as always)   :D  

Regards from 
Tom :)  




On Wednesday, 16 October 2013, 10:30, Dmitrijs Ledkovs <dmitrij.ledkov at ubuntu.com> wrote:
 
Originally the design called out for the following screen in the
side-by-side automatic installer:

http://assets.ubuntu.com/sites/ubuntu/588/u/img/download/desktop-1204-install-5.jpg

Unfortunately that regressed, see
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/947107

It ended up looking like this in Saucy:

https://launchpadlibrarian.net/142490601/Screenshot%20from%202013-06-15%2013%3A54%3A55.png

This has now been fixed, and now it looks like this:

https://launchpadlibrarian.net/153861270/new-dividors.png
https://launchpadlibrarian.net/153861844/lubuntu-new-dividors.png

This is a critical usability bug, thus it will go in as part of the
next ubiquity upload and respin for saucy. (despite user-interface
freeze et al)

If there are screenshots / documentation about those screens, you may
want to update the screenshots once it's available on the saucy
images.

Regards,

Dmitrijs.

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