On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 12:22:50AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > Package: countrychooser > Version: 1.09 > Severity: wishlist > > I did an installation test with the speakup floppies today. AFAICT these use > the text frontend for debconf. > > After selecting 'other' in the shortlist, there was this huge list of > countrynames flying across (and off) the screen, all with a number before the > name to be used for selection. Even with scrollback, I was unable to see the > beginning of the list (Netherlands, being 88, was just visible :-)
Yep, eighty eight. About the text flying across your screen: Use x-off ( Ctrl-S ) and x-on ( Ctrl-Q ) > I think the template for the full countrylist should be split into 2 separate > questions, at least for text frontend, but IMHO for all frontends. > - one question for 'continent'; > - one question for selection of an individual country on this continent. > > This should reduce the number of options per screen to manageable proportions. > And as most installations don't use the full list (but have single country or > select from shortlist), the extra question should not be a problem. Good proposal! (thank you for reporting this) > The only challenge will be to set the default continent based on the default > country. > As setting the default in the full list does not work ATM anyway, this could > be a good moment to fix that as well. Sort alphabetically, put 'default' on the first. (don't spent effort on finding out what default is) Geert Stappers
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