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Manual partitioning is unusable (and dangerous) with a larger font
archinstall-3.0.1-1
This is on a 1080p display.
Prior to running archinstall, use a larger font such as:
setfont solar24x32
In archinstall, select "Disk configuration" -> "Partitioning" -> "Manual Partitioning"
The disk selection menu is offscreen, and only the current disk properties table is visible. Use the arrow keys up/down and press 'enter' on a drive:
On the subsequent screen, only "Press ? for help" at the top is visible.
The user is in a bad state here. ? brings up the general "Archinstall help", which is useless here. ESC doesn't work, ctrl+c doesn't work, q doesn't work. You just have to know that you need to proceed further in to get the option to cancel (that's a usability issue even without the rendering problem TBH).
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I can see how this is not a good behaviour for limited space.
I'm open to any suggestions on how to improve this. Obviously we can enable ESC to abort the operation, but regarding the information cut off it'd be tricky to handle that.
ESC to abort the operation pretty much universally would be nice, as there are several places where that's not the case. It's pretty universal that that key will cancel something, so at least you can back out of the install script and use another partitioning tool. I'm not a pythonista, but if the menu code is able to know its own dimensions in characters, it could at least detect the case with something like:
If so, it could at least display an error if everything won't fit.
More ideal would be if it could jump down to display the selected menu item on arrows keys and attempt to right-justify the menu items before wrapping them, that would be better. The wrapping in the table isn't terrible, and someone using a large could reasonably expect some of that, but at minimum, it probably shouldn't allow submitting a menu selection that's outside of the viewable area.
Which ISO version are you using?
archlinux-2024.11.01-x86_64.iso
The installation log
N/A. This is a UI issue.
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Manual partitioning is unusable (and dangerous) with a larger font
archinstall-3.0.1-1
This is on a 1080p display.
archinstall
, use a larger font such as:archinstall
, select "Disk configuration" -> "Partitioning" -> "Manual Partitioning"The user is in a bad state here.
?
brings up the general "Archinstall help", which is useless here.ESC
doesn't work,ctrl+c
doesn't work,q
doesn't work. You just have to know that you need to proceed further in to get the option to cancel (that's a usability issue even without the rendering problem TBH).The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: