On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 12:21:43PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 09:48:12PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > >
> > > Screenshot: http://kitenet.net/~joey/tmp/whiptail.png (expires in 2
> > > weeks or so)
> >
> > but how does that look on a b/w term?
John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 09:48:12PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> >
> > Screenshot: http://kitenet.net/~joey/tmp/whiptail.png (expires in 2
> > weeks or so)
>
> but how does that look on a b/w term?
Well slang is supposed to let you set inverse video in B&W mode
indepen
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 09:48:12PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
>
> Screenshot: http://kitenet.net/~joey/tmp/whiptail.png (expires in 2
> weeks or so)
but how does that look on a b/w term?
-john
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Here's a patch against newt that would fix it:
--- newt.c~ Sat Jun 2 21:37:00 2001
+++ newt.c Sat Jun 2 21:37:37 2001
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@
"black", "lightgray", /* window fg, bg */
"white", "black", /* shadow fg, bg */
"red",
David Whedon wrote:
> An easy option which may or may not be any better is to not use the 'compact'
> version of buttons for yes/no boxes. An example of this can be found here:
>
> http://people.debian.org/~dwhedon/yesno_proposed.png
>
> for reference this is what the box looks like now:
> http
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 12:28:50PM -0700, David Whedon wrote:
> An easy option which may or may not be any better is to not use the 'compact'
> version of buttons for yes/no boxes. An example of this can be found here:
>
> http://people.debian.org/~dwhedon/yesno_proposed.png
ugh, flashbacks to
David Whedon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> An easy option which may or may not be any better is to not use the 'compact'
> version of buttons for yes/no boxes. An example of this can be found here:
>
> http://people.debian.org/~dwhedon/yesno_proposed.png
I think that this is much clearer, and
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 12:28:50PM -0700, David Whedon wrote:
>
> An easy option which may or may not be any better is to not use the 'compact'
> version of buttons for yes/no boxes. An example of this can be found here:
much nicer! that looks like it would work well on black and white
terms
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 12:28:50PM -0700, David Whedon wrote:
> >
> > Another alternative might be to put some sort of indicator under the
> > active choice, like '^', '*', or '---^---', etc.
> >
> I don't know how to easily implement this with libnewt (the windowing library
> boot-floppies
> I helped a friend with a B.S. in Computer Science do a Debian install
> yesterday, and he was quite confused at first until I told him that
> the blue choice was active.
I'll agree that it isn't obvious. If you hit tab and cycle through the yes and
no choices it is impossible to figure out which
Package: boot-floppies
Severity: normal
The (ncurses?) dialog boxes for the boot-floppies are confusing,
because unless one knows in advance that the blue item is the active
one in a "Yes/No" question, one doesn't know which choice one is
picking, especially since the default varies per question.
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