On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 09:05 +1300, Jonathan Musther wrote: > Agreed. I don't know why gparted was abandoned, it provided a more > user friendly way to do things. I like the proposal here too! >
GParted was abandoned because it was actually just an embedded window rather than an actual component of the installer, which lead to a whole host of bugs. The interactive communication that we have with the partitioner backend now, which allows us to determine what options are available to the user based on certain criteria, would not be possible with the GParted hack. We also would not be able to handle advanced partitioning in a single page like we do now. I'm sure there's more, but it's been a long time since we used GParted and my memory is a little fuzzy on every good reason we had for ripping it out. The current UI needs work to be as usable as GParted, but such work is in progress, with more planned in the future.
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