Ubuntu
ubiquity package

"Cancel" button is inconsistently placed

Bug #186953 reported by Matthew Paul Thomas
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Colin Watson

Bug Description

Binary package hint: ubiquity

Ubuntu Hardy alpha 3, with ubiquity updated

In steps 1 and 2 of the installer, the "Cancel" button is second from right. In steps 3 to 8, "Cancel" is third from right, because the "Back" button is present. This looks sloppy.

This could be fixed by:
* making the "Back" button visible at every step, but insensitive on step 1;
* removing the "Cancel" button entirely, because it's redundant with the title bar's close button.

Removing the "Cancel" button entirely would have the extra benefit of removing confusion in the confirmation alert for quitting the installer (bug 45690): the process of quitting the installer would no longer involve two "Cancel" buttons with opposite meanings.

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/lucid/ubiquity
Revision history for this message
TerryG (tgalati4) wrote :

Triaged to Confirmed. Agree with reporter's usability comments.

Changed in ubiquity:
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

I'm concerned that removing the Cancel button will make people feel they can't cancel. Since installation can be a highly destructive operation, I'd like Cancel to be a top-level action here, not an apparent accident of the window decorations.

Making the Back button visible but insensitive sounds like a good idea.

Changed in ubiquity:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Colin Watson (cjwatson)
Changed in ubiquity:
assignee: nobody → kamion
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 1.9.8

---------------
ubiquity (1.9.8) intrepid; urgency=low

  [ Mario Limonciello ]
  * Remove xmltv and dvbutils options, as they will be installed across
    all boxen now.
  * debian/control:
    - Drop depends for guidance on mythbuntu package.
  * Install custom mythbuntu recipe - only applicable for Mythbuntu
    frontend.
  * Add support for additional mythbuntu plugin, apple trailers.

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * When copying files, remove regular files and symlinks if they exist
    already on the target; this can happen legitimately if installing over
    an existing system and /boot wasn't erased.
  * Make the Back button insensitive on the first page rather than hiding it
    (LP: #186953).
  * Rename main Cancel button to Quit, and adjust the quit dialog text
    slightly so that we consistently use "quit" as the action verb and
    "cancel" clearly means to cancel the dialog (LP: #45690).
  * Fix format string substitution error in _abstract method.
  * Allow skipping the unmounting of busy partitions by preseeding
    ubiquity/partman-skip-unmount to true (LP: #252667).
  * Automatic update of included source packages: debian-installer-utils
    1.59ubuntu2, grub-installer 1.32ubuntu2, partman-target 55ubuntu2.

  [ Evan Dandrea ]
  * Also remove the langlevel file if it exists before we start
    localechooser.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:10:49 +0100

Changed in ubiquity:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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