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
