On 8/24/20 2:59 PM, Stasiek Michalski wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 14:56, Ancor Gonzalez Sosa <[email protected]> wrote:
>> As you all know, we recently got to the conclusion of adding a menu bar
>> to the YaST Partitioner and getting rid of several entries we have in
>> the left-hand tree. Check
>> https://github.com/yast/yast-storage-ng/blob/master/doc/partitioner_ui.md#agreed-plan-so-far
>>
>>
>> We are in the process of implementing that, but we are not sure how to
>> represent the screens that are now a misplaced entry in the tree: Device
>> Graphs, Installation Summary and Settings.
>>
>> Option 1: as pop-ups (even if they are full-screen pop-ups)
>>
>> In this option, "Settings" will be likely accessible through the
>> "System" menu (which we are considering to rename to "Partitioner") and
>> the other two would live in a "View" menu. See screenshot at
>> https://github.com/yast/yast-storage-ng/pull/1120
>>
>> We would consider that the normal view is the one with the devices tree
>> at the left, the tables of devices at the right and the menu at the top.
>> The other three views (settings, graph and summary) would be rendered on
>> top of the normal one (if we use classic pop-ups) or hiding it (if we
>> use the current approach of full-screen pop-ups). The menu bar would not
>> be accessible from such views and the user would need to close the
>> (maybe full-screen) pop-up using an "Ok" button to get back to the
>> normal view.
>>
>> In the current Partitioner, double-clicking in a node of the Device
>> Graph takes you to the entry of such device in the tree. I guess it
>> would keep doing the same, so it would be an alternative way of closing
>> the pop-up.
> 
> +1, it's a shame there are some views you can't have open at the same
> time as the main UI (like partition creation, settings etc), so I will
> support the view that makes it more convenient to preview two at once ;)

So you advocate for using real pop-ups everywhere instead of the current
"full-screen pop-ups" that actually substitute the content of the window
while they are open. Isn't it?

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