Re: [Tails-dev] Please review and merge feature/liveusb_ui_i…

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Author: intrigeri
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Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Please review and merge feature/liveusb_ui_improvement
Hi,

Alan wrote (11 Oct 2013 17:52:19 GMT) :
>> Just curious: any specific reason that I've missed to display the
>> device size in the confirmation dialog on initial install, but not at
>> upgrade time?
>>
> No.


Do you intend to fix this (say, in time for 0.22), or should I?

>>    _("You are going to install Tails on the %(vendor)s %(model)s
>> device (%(size)s). " "All data on the selected drive will be lost. "
>>      "Continue?")

>>
> I'm afraid that the phrasing make the suer believe that her data is
> actually erased, which is not the case, but that's not a regression.


I'm not afraid about it, but point taken. If you care, feel free to
file a ticket and/or propose another phrasing :)

>> > +def _format_bytes(value):
>> > +    return '%0.1f GB' % (value / 10.0**9)

>>
>> I appreciate the minor refactoring, but then I'd rather:
>>
>>   * either use some library to display human-readable units in all
>>     cases (think: 2TB external drive) to improve UX
>>   * or simply rename the function to _format_bytes_in_GB, so that at
>>     least the name expresses its current limitations.

>>
> I would choose the 2nd for now.


Do you intend to fix this (say, in time for 0.22), or should I?

>> However, the No/Yes buttons ordering seems unusual to me. I didn't
>> dare patching it, as I thought you might have followed the GNOME HIG
>> or something, and I may be missing something. Any reason to order it
>> this way?
>>
> No. I'm used to GTK+, which chooses the right order automatically. Qt
> might not do that.


Do you intend to fix this (say, in time for 0.22), or should I?

>> The device choice menu doesn't fit, and has an ugly "go down" button
>> when I:
>> 1. start the GUI with only one possible device plugged in
>> 2. plug a second device
>> 3. open the menu
>> It's not as painful to use as the greeter language menu, but still.
>> I can't reproduce this is the target device is plugged before I start
>> the installer. Can you reproduce this?


> I'll have a look.


Thanks.

>> To end with, the test suite was not updated yet, and is likely broken
>> by these changes, so please file a ticket about it, assigned to me if
>> you wish (I'd rather do it together, though). This must be fixed
>> before the 0.21 freeze.
>>
> I'm afraid that I don't have the infrastructure to do that yet, so I
> would appreciate if you took care of it.


OK, will (try to) do.

Cheers,
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