[Bug 981631] [NEW] No progress indication when resizing partitions

[Matthijs ten Kate]

Public bug reported:

When installing 12.04 beta 2 and choosing 'Something else', the user can manually change the size of existing partitions to make room for i.e. a side-by-side install.
However, the only indication the user gets when doing this is a warning that this operation 'might take a long time'. After this, only a spinning mouse cursor (and the hysterical blinking of the HDD LED, if the system has one) indicates to the user that actually something is happening.

IMHO the user should have some sort of progress indication (ideally an
ETA).

What is also confusing is that all buttons in the installation dialog
are still clickable, even 'Install Now'. While I am not sure if the user
can actually continue working with the partitioning setup while one of
the partitions is being resized, IMHO at least the 'Install Now' button
should be unclickable until the resize operation has finished. But
perhaps I should file this as a different bug?

** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  No progress indication when resizing partitions

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  When installing 12.04 beta 2 and choosing 'Something else', the user can manually change the size of existing partitions to make room for i.e. a side-by-side install.
  However, the only indication the user gets when doing this is a warning that this operation 'might take a long time'. After this, only a spinning mouse cursor (and the hysterical blinking of the HDD LED, if the system has one) indicates to the user that actually something is happening.

  IMHO the user should have some sort of progress indication (ideally an
  ETA).

  What is also confusing is that all buttons in the installation dialog
  are still clickable, even 'Install Now'. While I am not sure if the
  user can actually continue working with the partitioning setup while
  one of the partitions is being resized, IMHO at least the 'Install
  Now' button should be unclickable until the resize operation has
  finished. But perhaps I should file this as a different bug?

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