David Whedon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What I saw of gtk-fb looked really neat, pretty, etc. In fact, the
> first thing that came to my mind was, "Wouldn't that look neat for
> debian-installer". I haven't looked at the bogl front end, so I
> can't compare how they 'look'. I think it would
> It's hard to tell right now what is going to make sense as far as a
> GUI front end, as we've seen by this discussion.
I think we're converging on what would make sense.
> What I saw of gtk-fb looked really neat, pretty, etc. In fact, the
> first thing that came to my mind was, "Wouldn't that
> So, if it is going to be restructured, I'd like to find these features
> on the new one too.
I don't think a restructuring is in order, other the one that has been
ongoing for a while. Those features will still be in place, if I
understand the way the new installer works at this point. I don'
> GTK is nice, but it's not going on a floppy. This will.
OK, so what about being the "deluxe" installation UI on CD/broadband
installs as Randolph has suggested?
The question here is whether there is a significant benefit from using
the frame buffer as opposed to using X. I think there is.
>
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 03:30:23PM +0100, Luca De_Vitis wrote:
> I mean: you (I hope to join and help you ASAP) should try to make the
> smallest, feturefull engine you can, and provide as many front-end and
> back-end as possible and let other to choose what to build together for the
> installati
It's hard to tell right now what is going to make sense as far as a GUI front
end, as we've seen by this discussion.
What I saw of gtk-fb looked really neat, pretty, etc. In fact, the first thing
that came to my mind was, "Wouldn't that look neat for debian-installer". I
haven't looked at the b
Hi all,
well, I've installed hundreds of debian to friends and university colleagues,
done seminaries about Linux installation (on debian), and every time i put
emphasis on the installation features i didn't find in any installation system:
- let user make their choice.
- let user understand wha
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 12:52:51AM -0500, Chris Ruffin wrote:
> From what I gather today after playing around with gtk-fb today is
> that you would have to have the appropriate versions of several libraries
> available- the gtk & gdk libs, compiled for frame buffer support,
> glib, the pango libs
(btw, I got a bounce message on your email address)
> I agree with that. But there isn't any reason that this couldn't be
> accomplished with a gtk-based interface.
of course...
> And there are some merits to
> using a widget set that more resembles modern computing interfaces,
so [n]curses,
> > Perhaps moving the fb-based frontend bogl you speak of to gtk-fb
> > is the answer we're looking for? That'll give us access to all the
> > features of gtk, which IMHO would be a boon for the UI.
>
> First I want to reiterate someone else's comment -- having a GUI (in
> the sense you seem t
> Perhaps moving the fb-based frontend bogl you speak of to gtk-fb
> is the answer we're looking for? That'll give us access to all the
> features of gtk, which IMHO would be a boon for the UI.
First I want to reiterate someone else's comment -- having a GUI (in the
sense you seem to be thinkin
> I had similar thoughts when i read about the gtk framebuffer thing,
> although we do now have a framebuffer frontend (bogl) for cdebconf.
>
> The install will be able to handle a variety of different UI's, text
> for worst case senarios and for brail terminals, or curses/slang for
> installing
Hi
Thom May schrieb:
> With the now working release of gtkfb, and the soon to be
> release (hopefully) of curses gtk+, it seems to me that there is
> a good opportunity for a "nice" ie, newbie friendly, installer.
Why do you people have the idea that a graphical installer in
itself is more user
Thom May wrote:
>
> Folks.
> Much of this is probably repeating what has already been said,
> but here goes.
> I, either on line or in real life, continually say to people who
> ask me which distribution of linux to use, "use debian". and
> they, routinely, say "but the installer is terrifying, a
ok, to follow up my own message, I'm thinking this would be
for the CD based installer only - most (I'd imagine all)
users of the floppy install would be familiar enough with
debian to use the old style install.
-Thom
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Folks.
Much of this is probably repeating what has already been said,
but here goes.
I, either on line or in real life, continually say to people who
ask me which distribution of linux to use, "use debian". and
they, routinely, say "but the installer is terrifying, and straight
out of the dark age
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