reassign 758984 partman-base thanks
Holger Wansing <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: partman > > > Hi, > > I found that depending on the language the partitioning help text > does not fit into the screen when using the graphical installer. > From the partitioning main screen you can call a partitioning help, > which is displayed as a popup window, laying over the main installer > interface. > This popup lacks a scrollbar, and therefore there maybe some unvisible > part of the text, if the text has more than 40 lines (at least on my > machine; unsure if this is depending on the screen resolution and so > on?). > In the text installer you can scroll this page down (although there > is no visible scrollbar). > > Additionally to the unvisible text problem there is also the "Continue" > button at the bottom of that popup, which is no more visible. So users > might end up with canceling the installation and power-cycling their machine, > because they see no other possibility to close the popup than via > hard-switching off the machine (just pressing ENTER also works to close > the popup, but since this is the graphical installer, people might be > focussed on using the mouse and don't get the idea to simply press the > Enter key). > > > Adding the possiblity to scroll the popup would be the perfect solution > for this, but somehow I thought, this might be not so easy. > > That's why I have shrinked the german translation of that partitioning > help, so that it does not take more place than the english one (in > summary). > But in some languages this might be not possible... > > Also, it might be possible to change the width of that popup, since it only > has a width of ~55 characters. Expanding that to let's say 80 characters would > give a lot more room. Maybe this solution is less complicated than adding > a scrollbar? > > > Cheers > Holger > > -- > Holger Wansing <[email protected]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
