No partitions visible when running without daemon

[peteruithoven]

What Happened?

When running the installer in a regular session (not from a live usb stick try session, the partitions don't appear.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Install installer (sudo apt install io.elementary.installer)
2. Run installer (io.elementary.installer). With or without --test.
3. Go through first steps
4. Select Custom Install (Advanced)

Expected Behavior

Partitions are visible

OS Version

7.x (Horus)

Software Version

Latest release (I have run all updates)

Log Output

No errors or warnings seem to appear when using G_MESSAGES_DEBUG and going to the page

Hardware Info

No response

[davidmhewitt]

There is a Daemon process that the front-end communicates with. That gets installed as a systemd service that you'd have to start after installing for this to work.

That said, I think we'd probably want to make the test mode have some fake partitions so we could visually test changes to that view.

Maybe it's worth converting this issue into something that describes that.