On 2/1/21 12:48 PM, Ancor Gonzalez Sosa wrote:
> On 2/1/21 12:15 PM, Ancor Gonzalez Sosa wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> That opens a question - what can we do to prevent our users to get lost
>> in the new UI? For me, that actually splits in two questions:
>>
>> 1) What can we adjust in the UI to make the transition smoother and/or
>> to improve usability in general?
> 
> In this regard, maybe we should reconsider the approach of our current
> help texts in the Partitioner. When the users clicks on "help" they get
> a description about the content of the particular table that is
> currently on the screen and about the columns it contains. That's for
> sure useful but there is no general explanation, in the Help button or
> anywhere else, about how the whole Partitioner UI is organized. Nothing
> mentions the menu or the left tree. No way to get a general overview on
> how to navigate the UI.

I tried to fix that with new help texts. Please check and provide
feedback https://github.com/yast/yast-storage-ng/pull/1208

> Or maybe all that is irrelevant because nobody uses the help anyways. I
> don't know.
> 
> Or maybe we could have such explanation accessible through a different
> more prominent button than the Help one (which I feel has become part of
> the general landscape and nobody sees it anymore)...

I have been playing with the idea of a more powerful help dialog that
can contain hyperlinks to additional content (like a "guided tour") or
similar fancy stuff. But I discarded it for the time being. See the
thread "The YaST Wizard and the help pop-up" in this same ML.
https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/B6VANW7DAYBZ6ZIYX5HOW3LHYZK2EE4G/

Cheers.
-- 
Ancor González Sosa
YaST Team at SUSE Software Solutions

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