Right now it use a plain text entry, with no hints about whether I should use megabytes, gigabytes or what else. It also lacks a way to "fill all available space" which is very handy (for instance I always delete my previous "/" partition and recreate it leaving all the others untouched)
You can use any units you want, which the tooltip explains. To reuse an existing filesystem, you can click the "Reformat" button after selecting the mountpoint on the left hand side of the screen. This was just added in the past couple days.
Still a plain text entry is very confusing... Among other things that come to mind, it could use a spinbutton, it could use the "hint" property of GtkEntry, it could default to a number that is the max available space thus providing a sensible default and a practical example of how the capacity should be expressed.
Neither the tooltip nor the dialog say what the _default_ units are ... Another problem is that to use all available space, the user should leave the capacity box empty. That is completely unintuitive ... This bug should be reopened as a user interface design bug.
(In reply to comment #3) > Neither the tooltip nor the dialog say what the _default_ units are ... > > Another problem is that to use all available space, the user should leave > the capacity box empty. That is completely unintuitive ... > > This bug should be reopened as a user interface design bug. Tested with: anaconda-0:18.29.2-1.fc18.x86_64 Fedora-18-Beta-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso (RC1)
See also: Bug 850839 - unit for new device size defaults to bytes if not specified
(In reply to comment #1) > You can use any units you want, which the tooltip explains. ... The tooltip "explains" no such thing: 'eg: "20 GB", "500mb" (minus the quotation marks)' The tooltip gives two examples and a meta-syntax rule. If anaconda is to provide a _graphical_ user interface, it needs to use standard GUI elements, such as menus. $ grep -rl 'eg: "20 GB", "500mb" (minus the quotation marks' anaconda-18.29.2-1 anaconda-18.29.2-1/pyanaconda/ui/gui/spokes/custom.glade