On 09/20/2018 05:20 PM, Ancor Gonzalez Sosa wrote:
> 
> Find below a link to a gist with a possible idea that tries to use:
> 
> - (1) menu buttons for grouping actions that are similar/related
> - (2) two lines to separate general actions from actions to be performed
>   on the selected item.
> 
> About (1), today during the conversation it became obvious than grouping
> the "Add xxx" or the "Delete xxx" actions in menu-buttons made little
> sense. That's grouping by the name of the button (both start with "add",
> so let's group them!) rather than by their meaning/scope. So the
> grouping is actually different to everything we had suggested before.
> 
> Some decisions/grouping may look strange at first glance when thinking
> locally about a concrete screen. But I hope they are justified by
> looking at the consistency of the big picture. And I hope the weirdness
> can be mitigating just improving a bit the wording of the buttons.

For example, the following wording may be less disruptive (since it use
"Edit" in a more familiar way) and more clear. The list of
(menu)-buttons is exactly the same than in the gist with the same order
and the same meaning, just with the following labels.

When a Hard Disk is selected:
=============================

Modify (menu-button)
  -> Edit Hard Disk
  -> Create New Partition Table

Partitions (menu-button)
  -> Edit Partitions
  -> Add Partition
  -> Delete Partitions
  -> Clone Partitions to Another Device

When a RAID is selected:
========================

Modify (menu-button)
  -> Edit RAID
  -> Change Used Devices
  -> Create New Partition Table

Partitions (menu-button with same options than above)

Delete RAID

When a Partition is selected:
=============================

Modify (menu-button)
  -> Edit Partition
  -> Resize Partition
  -> Move Partition

Delete Partition


> So here is the link:
> https://gist.github.com/ancorgs/5e5fd016eb7db7413a1972d52f9ae913
> 
> Please provide (at least) feedback or (desirably) alternatives. During
> next sprint (starting next Monday) we will start implementing the most
> promising idea (whatever it is) to see how people reacts to it.

Cheers.


-- 
Ancor González Sosa
YaST Team at SUSE Linux GmbH
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