Show partitions as a list
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Submitted by Allan Day Link to original bug (#737671)
Description
Created attachment 287471 mockup
This is a design idea that I've had floating around for quite a long time. I thought I might as well post it here to see what people think.
The current partition table UI is problematic for a number of reasons:
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It doesn't scale well - it's hard to fit in lots of partitions comfortably, and long partition names don't fit.
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The use of the background to indicate remaining space is unclear. It is only shown for the selected partition.
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It is unclear that you have to select a partition to access information and options for it.
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It uses an attached toolbar, which I'm not very fond of in general. There are intelligibility issues with the use of icons there.
My feeling is that a list is a better option than a table. A list can scale easily, nested partitions can be simply shown, and there's no need to struggle with complex custom drawing.
I've attached a rough mockup to give you an idea.