[install-discuss] Re: Re: Dwarf GUI Demo available

[Shawn Walker]

On 06/04/07, William D. Hathaway <william.hathaway at versatile.com> wrote:
> If disks that are too small (or otherwise invalid choices) can't be "unselectable" can the icons for them be different at least (like a hard disk image behind a "circle with a line through it") than the legal disks?  If I have 10 disks, but 9 are too small to install on, it seems tedious to make the user select all 10 one by one before finding the disk that it is legal to install on.
>

The different icon seems like a great compromise, that way people can
still select the disk in question to find out specifically why it
can't be used.

> I'm not sure what ordering the disks are displayed in, but I'd also recommend making the first usable disk be in the position that users would be most likely select (the disk on the far left or top depending on how the layout goes).
>

That also seems helpful.

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Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
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