Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-16 Thread Joseph Carter
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 09:48:18AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > What I need from dselect is more screen space, more pixels, a less crampled > selection environment. It takes forver to navigate through dselect because > of the sheer number of packages. It seems that gdselect would help a lot

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-16 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Tom Lees wrote: > I agree, but I needed something to get it up off the ground quickly. > It could now almost certainly be ported to libapt very quickly, > whereas writing it to libapt in the first place would have been > harder, especially considering I already had the basics

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-16 Thread Adam Heath
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Tom Lees wrote: > Adam, how far have you got? Maybe we should collaborate on this. > I believe its probably not much effort to port to libapt - the main > problem is the "dependency screen" bit. Well, I removed the dpkg.a file, and started rem'ing out code. Got that to compi

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-16 Thread Tom Lees
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 09:48:18AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > > Hi, > > >>"Michael" == Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Michael> Quoting Jason Gunthorpe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > >> I think this idea of 'lets quickly do something fast' is ill c

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-16 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > >>"Michael" == Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Michael> Quoting Jason Gunthorpe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >> I think this idea of 'lets quickly do something fast' is ill concieved an > d > >> is ultimately going to hurt our image. I've looked at the

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-16 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Michael Stone wrote: > > Michael> Perhaps an incremental approach is good: a good gui for the > > Michael> existing product in this release, other features in other > > Michael> releases. Maybe apt will be better, but we haven't seen it > > Michael> yet (referring to the U

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-16 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Manoj Srivastava ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >>"Michael" == Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Michael> Quoting Jason Gunthorpe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >> I think this idea of 'lets quickly do something fast' is ill concieved and > >> is ultimately going to hurt our image. I've looked

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-16 Thread Tom Lees
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 05:52:59PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > Hmm, I think this is my first comment on this.. > > On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Tom Lees wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 02:29:04PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Are there any plans to merge this with apt? Seems gdselect has the

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Michael" == Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> Quoting Jason Gunthorpe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> I think this idea of 'lets quickly do something fast' is ill concieved and >> is ultimately going to hurt our image. I've looked at the latest version, >> it looks rather prett

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-16 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Jason Gunthorpe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I think this idea of 'lets quickly do something fast' is ill concieved and > is ultimately going to hurt our image. I've looked at the latest version, > it looks rather pretty, it's slightly more functional than dselect but > that's about it.. It doesn

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-15 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
Hmm, I think this is my first comment on this.. On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Tom Lees wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 02:29:04PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > > Are there any plans to merge this with apt? Seems gdselect has the frontend, > > and apt has the backend. > > Well, I could do with some apt in-b

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-15 Thread Tom Lees
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 02:29:04PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > Are there any plans to merge this with apt? Seems gdselect has the frontend, > and apt has the backend. Well, I could do with some apt in-built dependency handling :) There isnt time before the freeze, and AFAIK there are no plans now (w

Re: Screenshots (Re: gdselect alpha 3)

1998-10-15 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 05:03:22PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > I was told recently that people might be interested in some screenshots > of the program. The following page contains three images. > > http://www.infodrom.north.de/~joey/Linux/Debian/gdselect.html Does anyone else has the problem

Re: Screenshots (Re: gdselect alpha 3)

1998-10-15 Thread Greg Vence
Martin Schulze wrote: > > Nils Rennebarth wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 05:03:22PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > I was told recently that people might be interested in some screenshots > > > of the program. The following page contains three images. > > > > > > http://www.infodrom.north.

Re: Screenshots (Re: gdselect alpha 3)

1998-10-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Nils Rennebarth wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 05:03:22PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > I was told recently that people might be interested in some screenshots > > of the program. The following page contains three images. > > > > http://www.infodrom.north.de/~joey/Linux/Debian/gdselect.html

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-14 Thread Joey Hess
Are there any plans to merge this with apt? Seems gdselect has the frontend, and apt has the backend. -- see shy jo

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-14 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 08:52:01PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > Tom Lees wrote: > > I released alpha 3 to http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/gdselect/ today. > > This looks quite impressive. Good work! > > One comment: On my system the gauge which is displayed first uses > strange size. The y-stretc

Re: Screenshots (Re: gdselect alpha 3)

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Le Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 05:03:22PM +0200, Martin Schulze écrivait: > > http://www.infodrom.north.de/~joey/Linux/Debian/gdselect.html > > The startup image isn't available. It is now. I'm too lame to type. Regards, Joey -- Unix is user friendly ... It's just

Re: Screenshots (Re: gdselect alpha 3)

1998-10-14 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 05:03:22PM +0200, Martin Schulze écrivait: > http://www.infodrom.north.de/~joey/Linux/Debian/gdselect.html The startup image isn't available. But I have a problem with gdselect. The first time I ran it, i was logged in a non-root account. It worked and was able to browse t

Screenshots (Re: gdselect alpha 3)

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi, I was told recently that people might be interested in some screenshots of the program. The following page contains three images. http://www.infodrom.north.de/~joey/Linux/Debian/gdselect.html Regards, Joey -- Unix is user friendly ... It's just picky about it's friends.

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-14 Thread Steve Dunham
Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "Martin" == Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Martin> Fixed by moving "#include " five lines up. I > Martin> fixed it but forget about it, since it was *that* easy. > Martin> Not even worth mentioning. > > Er, in which

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-13 Thread Martin Schulze
> > "Martin" == Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Martin> Fixed by moving "#include " five lines up. I > Martin> fixed it but forget about it, since it was *that* easy. > Martin> Not even worth mentioning. > > Ben> Er, in which file? The file that errored out was

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "BG" == Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> "Martin" == Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Martin> Fixed by moving "#include " five lines up. I Martin> fixed it but forget about it, since it was *that* easy. Martin> Not even worth mentioning. BG> Er, in which file? The

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Ben Gertzfield wrote: > > "Martin" == Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Martin> Fixed by moving "#include " five lines up. I > Martin> fixed it but forget about it, since it was *that* easy. > Martin> Not even worth mentioning. > > Er, in which file? The file that er

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-13 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Martin" == Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Martin> Fixed by moving "#include " five lines up. I Martin> fixed it but forget about it, since it was *that* easy. Martin> Not even worth mentioning. Er, in which file? The file that errored out was deps.c and it doesn't

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Ben Gertzfield wrote: > I cannot get alpha 3 to compile. > > (snip) > > gcc -g -Wall -Werror -I/home/che/src/gdselect/gdselect-a3/include > -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/lib/glib/include -c util.c -o util.o > gcc -g -Wall -Werror -I/home/che/src/gdselect/gdselect-a3/include > -I/usr/X11R6/includ

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-13 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Tom" == Tom Lees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom> I released alpha 3 to http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/gdselect/ Tom> today. The next release will have all features present. This Tom> is primarily a last testing phase. I cannot get alpha 3 to compile. (snip) gcc -g -Wall -Werro

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Tom Lees wrote: > I released alpha 3 to http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/gdselect/ today. This looks quite impressive. Good work! One comment: On my system the gauge which is displayed first uses strange size. The y-stretch was about 5 times of the title bar. That looks ugly. I'd rather like it to

gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-13 Thread Tom Lees
I released alpha 3 to http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/gdselect/ today. The next release will have all features present. This is primarily a last testing phase. -- Tom Lees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.lpsg.demon.c