Giuseppe Sacco dijo [Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 04:47:17PM +0200]: > Il mer, 2003-07-30 alle 13:46, Sebastian Ley ha scritto: > > * Sebastian Ley wrote: > > > > > here we go to add some discussion on the never ending topic of a > > > graphical installer. The current implementation of the gtk-frontend > > > for cdebconf is highly unsatisfactory. Because of the limited debconf > > > capabilities it is a mere question asker which is not what one would > > > expect from a graphical installer. > > > > Okay, perhaps I sould elaborate on this a bit more to raise your > > interest in this topic ;-) > > It is already very intersting for me :-) > I think that in order to support a more sophisticad interaction we > should change the interface protocol in order to add/remove more widget. > This is basically what you pointed out, and I agree on your idea. I do > not know if storing the widget in an .so is much complicated or if it > creates a big overhead, but I like it. > > The first step should be to specify what will be the UI manager (text, > dialog, gtk, ...) and then to choice which widget should be implemented. > > A first (short) list of widgets could be: > > 1. A keyboard selector (that could show the different layout) > 2. A disk selector (with fidderent icon for different kind of devices) > 3. A partitioner (where to specify dimension, position, file system for > every partition)
IMHO, these should be different usages, not widgets. A widget should be a generic element appliable to different situations. For example, a good widget for your first and second points could be a list - maybe allowing for further growth, a collapsable tree (that could be very useful also, i.e., for navigating the modules list - You don't have to open and close sets of windows as you do now using either boot-floppies or modconf, you can expand or collapse branches of the tree). About the partitioner... Well... It is harder (for me at least) to think of a generic widget for managing partitions... I don't like the idea of having the partitioner mandate a specific widget to be used only for the specific task, but I also would not like to resort to an external thing taking care of it, just as cfdisk does in boot-floppies. :-/ Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5630-9700 ext. 1366 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
