Re: Online help for partman-lvm

2009-07-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:29:13PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Christian Perrier wrote: > > LVM allows combining partitions ("physical volumes") to form a > > virtual disk ("volume group"), which can then be divided into virtual > > partitions ("logical volumes

Re: Online help for partman-lvm

2009-07-22 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello, On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Christian Perrier wrote: [...] > LVM allows combining partitions ("physical volumes") to form a > virtual disk ("volume group"), which can then be divided into virtual > partitions ("logical volumes"). Volume groups and logical volumes may span > several ph

Re: Online help for partman-lvm

2009-07-22 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello Colin, On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Colin Watson wrote: > After talking with Christian. I'd like to add online help for > partman-lvm. How about the following template? I've reduced it from the > text in the d-i manual. I like the idea a lot but one part of it was confusing for me: [.

Re: Online help for partman-lvm

2009-07-22 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Colin Watson (cjwat...@debian.org): > Template: partman-lvm/help > Type: note > # :sl3: > _Description: Logical Volume Management > A common situation for system administrators is to find that some disk > partition (usually the most important one) is short on space, while some > other p

Re: Online help

2009-07-04 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 01:11:27PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > +/* Set up the help button if necessary. FIXME: We only offer help for > + * the first question with help text in any given question box. It's not > + * clear what the right thing to do here is. > + */ The best I can i

Re: Online help

2009-07-02 Thread Colin Watson
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Re: Online help

2009-06-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 01:11:27PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Index: src/modules/db/mysql/create.sql > === > --- src/modules/db/mysql/create.sql (revision 59150) > +++ src/modules/db/mysql/create.sql (working copy) > @@ -33,6 +33

Re: Online help

2009-06-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:09:44PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Here's an initial draft of a patch for this, tested interactively using > the changes to src/test/help.templates included in the patch. It was > surprisingly easy! I've only done the newt interface so far, not the GTK > interface; plea

Re: Online help

2009-06-25 Thread Colin Watson
Here's an initial draft of a patch for this, tested interactively using the changes to src/test/help.templates included in the patch. It was surprisingly easy! I've only done the newt interface so far, not the GTK interface; please have a look over this, since I'd like to have general consensus tha

Re: Online help

2009-06-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 07:50:34PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > The design I currently believe to be sensible is to add an optional > 'Help' field to debconf questions. This field would contain the name of > another question, probably Type: text, whose Description would contain > the help text to b

Re: Online help

2009-06-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 07:21:35AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > I like this...a lot. The implementation you propose is indeed very > simple and doesn't seem really invasive (except for the impact of > translations of large amount of texts). Dependent on what online help we actually add, of co

Re: Online help

2009-06-18 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Colin Watson (cjwat...@debian.org): > The design I currently believe to be sensible is to add an optional > 'Help' field to debconf questions. This field would contain the name of > another question, probably Type: text, whose Description would contain > the help text to be displayed (tran