Hi
Thom May schrieb:
> With the now working release of gtkfb, and the soon to be
> release (hopefully) of curses gtk+, it seems to me that there is
> a good opportunity for a "nice" ie, newbie friendly, installer.
Why do you people have the idea that a graphical installer in
itself is more user friendly? Designing a good graphical (as in
coloured pixels, characters are graphical too, you know)
installer is a lot of work. At least with a framebuffer
installer one can reach many more people with a single frontend
than before with svgalib or similar hacks.
Further: what do you get from a graphical installer if the
underlying installation system is not finished and reliable?
I really don't get the point of a curses gtk+ frontend. What
makes it better than the slang frontend?
Note I'm writing of frontends (for {c,}debconf), that's the way
to go now I think, everything else would be a waste of time.
> Using gtkfb for a graphical installer and curses gtk+ for a text
> installer would mean that the same code could be used for both
> methods, allowing for a consistent ui "look and feel".
( I wonder how curses gtk+ manages to be consistent with gtkfb
... libaa-style drawing? ;) )
> I realise that using gtkfb adds several more dependencies to the
> install software, not least is the need to have VESA
Use the vgafb on i386 ... it should work for even more video
hardware.
> framebuffer support compiled into the kernel, but i feel that it
> would be a relatively small sacrifice given the potential that a
> graphical installer has.
What's the "potential of a graphical installer" over eg the
slang one? The ability to show a debian swirl throughout the
entire installation?
My rationale: do it if you really want, but getting the new
installer done at all should really have priority now -- it was
said before that not having an installer ready could get into
the way of woody releasing soon.
BTW: dbootstrap sucks over 9600 serial console ...
ciao, 2ri
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