Brian May wrote: > 1. some front ends display the information at the wrong time, and > require manually pressing enter to acknowledge, so you see the verbose > information (which may not even be important) before you get asked the > question.
There's really nothing I can do about this in the context of the dialog drontend. Dialog is a very limiting tool. > 2. some front ends, eg. text will always display the verbose > information even if it is not required, hence forcing other messages > to scroll of the top of the screen. Try setting DEBCONF_TERSE=true. I haven't yet added a help keybinding to the text frontend in that mode, but I do intend to. > 3. some questions are poorly described. eg. for configuring mouse, in > the slang front end, I see a pull down list of mouse types and the > following description: "If in doubt choose the first option". Just > what is the first option? Can you even rely on the front end not to > reorder the list? Yes you can, and anyone who writes a debconf question like that deserves a bug report. You're told not to do so in the debconf tutorial. -- see shy jo
