On 09.12.2016 08:37, Philip Hands wrote: >> On Wed, 07 Dec 2016, Philip Hands wrote: >>> It could be much improved by making it more obvious that the heading is >>> a heading. Even if we're unable to stop headings having a checkbox, we >>> could change the text and the hierarchy slightly to be something like >>> this: >>> >>> [ ] === Debian Desktop Environments: >>> [x] ... Gnome >> [...] >>> Would that cheer people up without needing a major rewrite of tasksel?
This improves the situation, and could probably done quite simple at the same place where the ellipsis (...) is introduced: https://sources.debian.net/src/tasksel/3.38/tasksel.pl/#L360-L366 One just needs to find out here that it is actually a heading. > I think that should be a select, rather than a multi-select: > > --> standard desktop (will install $DESKTOP) <-- > standard server (includes ssh) > other use cases > > (or however the UI presents it) > > The reason for the extra bits in brackets is that I've always thought > the tasksel menu was hiding just a little too much of what was meant by > the options. I would vote for that, however we would need 1. someone willing *and* competent (the latter excludes myself) to implement this in tasksel, 2. someone convincing Cyril that this is ready to go into Stretch: On 08.12.2016 23:20, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > While it's clear to me we need to fix the blends situation at some point > before the release (couldn't find time to do so yet; last resort option > is masking all of them entirely), I'm rather dubious about changing the > package selection/tasksel screen at this point of the release cycle. Volunteers for any of those tasks? Best regards Ole
