Jost Tobias Springenberg schrieb:
I have started to review the code and will begin to implement this after one
more week of
other work to be done. Usually I am not a big fan of announcing such a simple
project before it is done
but I imagine some of you might have their objections / additions to the list I
compiled here.
If you happen to be such a someone feel free to reply to this post.
Hi, just some thoughts:
I don't think the interactive mode should be curses based. Curses tools,
while looking great to the new user, have all kinds of disadvantages
(not script(1)-able, mess up my terminal window etc.) for more
experienced users. OTOH, non-curses tools do not necessarily have to be
newbie-unfriendly. It's just that the fdisk(8) interactive mode sucks.
For example, a simple interactive mode on the command line could also be
done like:
> add s2 <start> <end>
> delete s4
(omit <start> and <end> e.g. to make it take up maximum space between s1
and s3)
I've always liked most the interface of Plan 9's nice little
partitioning tool (http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/8/prep).
But hey, it's just my personal opinion. If you make something newbie
friendly, don't make it old-bie unfriendly. :)
Sascha
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