[Morphix-cvs] partitionmorpher TODO,1.5,1.6

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Update of /cvsroot/morphix/partitionmorpher
In directory sc8-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv20183

Modified Files:
	TODO 
Log Message:
Removed completed items; added notes for some basic testing done so far

Index: TODO
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RCS file: /cvsroot/morphix/partitionmorpher/TODO,v
retrieving revision 1.5
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -C2 -d -r1.5 -r1.6
*** TODO	19 Oct 2003 00:18:57 -0000	1.5
--- TODO	20 Oct 2003 17:23:08 -0000	1.6
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  	- Test Create / Deleting
+             Notes from Elijah's testing of these:
+               I only tested on one 1913 MB partition (since that's my
+               current freespace partition) as a Primary partition.
+                 Succeesful:  ext2, swap, and fat32 creation & all deletions.
+                 Fail:  ext3, reiserfs, xfs, ntfs, and fat16 creation.
+                 Untested: the rest :)
+               The only surprises are:
+                 (1) That Parted's error message is misleading in the
+                     cases of reiserfs (note: I don't have libreiserfs
+                     installed), xfs, and ntfs.  It reports, "Unable to
+                     satisfy all constraints on the partition", when
+                     the real error is that Parted doesn't support the
+                     operation.
+                 (2) That FAT16 simply fails instead of offering a
+                     workaround.  QTParted is successful in trying to
+                     create a FAT16 partition here, but it does so by
+                     creating a 1 GB partition and leaving 913 MB of
+                     freespace (however, it also suffers from the
+                     problem of not asking me if such a poor
+                     approximation is okay).
  
  	- Add commit-changes-at-end
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        Do all of these apply for primary, extended, and logical partitions?
      There's probably still some debugging info that doesn't need to be shown
!     If stdout is redirected at the command line, the progress dialog
!       doesn't work (apparently Parted required stdout to not be
!       redirected).  We should be able to work around this by
!       redirecting stdout to stderr.  Note that everything still works
!       (error dialog, progress dialog, etc.) if stderr is redirected.
      Errors printed by Parted when setting up Partition table aren't
        shown to user, except in a terminal; either show them to the
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        Do all of these apply for primary, extended, and logical partitions?
      There's probably still some debugging info that doesn't need to be shown
!     stdout & stderr are no longer separate.  Parted apparently
!       requires stdout to not be redirected at the command line--if it
!       is, it won't be able to call the timer_handler with the
!       remaining time left.  Therefore, I redirect stdout to stderr in
!       main to avoid this issue altogether.  (Note that Parted works
!       fine if stderr is redirected at the command line)
      Errors printed by Parted when setting up Partition table aren't
        shown to user, except in a terminal; either show them to the
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        don't queue commands.  This should be removed until that is
        added (and at that time, we need an apply button as well.
-     The cursor for the main window is not the busy cursor when it is
-       for sub-menus.  This is probably a bug, but I'm not sure if this
-       is expected behavior or not.  If it is a bug, it's probably a
-       simple change to callbacks.c:show_busy_cursor.
-     The sub-windows don't disable the main window.  This means that
-       the user can highlight /dev/hda2 and click on delete, leave the
-       DeletePartition window open, and then higlight some freespace
-       and click on create to also have the CreatePartition window
-       showing at the same time.  I don't know if this should be
-       allowed--but if it is, then more than one CreatePartition window
-       should be allowed (currently, if a user does the same basic
-       thing to try to get to CreatePartition windows, then the first
-       window will merely change so that it is relevant for the second
-       partition and only one window will be open).  Update: This is
-       BAD.  I can have a Delete, Move, Convert, and Resize window all
-       open on /dev/hda2.  That's just asking for problems...
- 
  
  
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      (why is that reported for the swap partition (and only for it)?)
  
!   Find out why FAT16 and NTFS file creation aren't working
! 
!   Reasons why FAT16 and NTFS file creation weren't working
      NTFS -- apparently, "can't satisfy constraints" means "I don't
              know how to make an NTFS filesystem.  Pretty stupid and
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      (why is that reported for the swap partition (and only for it)?)
  
!   Find out why FAT16 and NTFS file creation aren't working.  DONE:
      NTFS -- apparently, "can't satisfy constraints" means "I don't
              know how to make an NTFS filesystem.  Pretty stupid and
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    Main screen
      The graphical partition layout (i.e. the stuff just above the full
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        tables) needs word labels and actual colors or something--this
        may simply be a problem of the GTK2-H2O theme I use.  However,
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        nicely with lots of info, but in clear and intuitive way)
    Creating a partition
- 
-     Extended should not be an option if an extended partition already
-       exists (I think) (done)
      Most filesystem types & all flags should be hidden behind an advanced tab
-     s/Partition Path/Current Partition Path/ or /Partition Path/d
      The partition size widget needs a text field for manually entering
        the size (sliders just don't cut it--see the
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