On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, [olo] wrote: > Another idea that came to my ming is to place a pop-up menu on device tabs. > > You right-click on "hda" tab, select "Device info" and get Vender, model string, > and human-readable capacity e.g.
Why right click and the extra complication of context menus? No context menus used in the installer at present. > > Western Digital > WDC WD150EB-00BHF0 > 15 GB > > or: > > Western Digital > WDC WD43AA > 4312 MB > > > By human-readable capacity I mean "given in megabytes for drives that are > smaller than 8.5 GB, given in gigabytes for drives that are larger". BTW, this is done already in expert mode ... I see (running diskdrake, and clicking "Toggle to expert mode"): Device: hda Size: 11GB Geometry: 1559 Cylinders, 240 Heads, 63 Sectors Info: HITACHI_DK23AA-12B Partition table type: table::dos on chanel 0 id 0 Regards, Buchan -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 ***************************************************************** Please click on http://www.cae.co.za/disclaimer.htm to read our e-mail disclaimer or send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a copy. *****************************************************************
