Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 20:01 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > > >> Heh. :-) > >> > >> I actually am curious to hear what people like about the program, > >> because I'm (slowly) working out ideas for redesigning the interface > >> and I don't want to accidentally break useful features. Any breakage > >> should be fully intentional, that's my motto. > >> > >> Hence my oh-so-subtle prodding... > >> > >> Daniel > > > > Sadly, I have NEVER used aptitude ncurses. Ever since the early days of > > Potato, when I tried to use it, I would get completely lost. As smart > > Ditto. I'm sure it's a fine program, but I, too, get lost with the > ncurses interface of aptitude. (I actually found dselect easier to get > around in. What?!!)
Sorry for the me too, but I was just about to say that. I've no trouble with either at the command line. The *curses interface is highly non-intuitive (IMO). It, along with dselect, has always struck me as just a little Martian. That's fine in vi or emacs that you use all the time (so you learn it), but in a pkg mgr? I liked dselect once I banged my head on it long enough. Nowadays, I manage to limit myself to CLI aptitude, with very infrequent indulgences in dpkg. So, Daniel, _consider_ (thanks :-) a wholesale interface re-design (you've free rein), or offer choice of old or new via command line switch, or something, a la view vs. vi? IFF "--new" is found on CL, give 'em the new one? What'll the old one say when it sees that? Hmm. Gotta be a better way. Env. var? Have fun. Disclosure; I haven't so much as looked at the *curses interface to any of it in years, sorry. I could well be p***ng into my hat. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html Linux Counter #80292 - - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html Please, don't Cc: me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
