Re: sysinstall colours

2009-10-15 Thread Andrew D. Boyd
Ed Schouten wrote: > * Paul B Mahol wrote: >> This have nothing to do with ncurses, colors you like simple can not >> be displayed in current syscons(4) and making support for 256 colors >> or even true bit color in sysinstall(so that it looks amazing in >> konsole) is waste of time. > > Yes. As

Re: sysinstall colours

2009-10-14 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> What sometimes bothers me a bit while using sysinstall is the long sequence > of > Yes/No questions at a certain moment ('do you want NFS server? do you want > NFS client? do you want anonymous FTP? do you want bridging? etc...). A > more logical user interface seems a list of configurab

Re: sysinstall colours

2009-10-13 Thread Michiel Overtoom
On Saturday 10 October 2009 01:59:32 Randi Harper wrote: > All the problems with sysinstall, and your idea is to > change the color? [...] Fancy colors seems to me like a wrong focus of attention too... but maybe it would be nice to be able to run sysinstall in monochrome mode, for maximum cont

Re: sysinstall colours

2009-10-11 Thread Ed Schouten
* Paul B Mahol wrote: > This have nothing to do with ncurses, colors you like simple can not > be displayed in current syscons(4) and making support for 256 colors > or even true bit color in sysinstall(so that it looks amazing in > konsole) is waste of time. Yes. As of recently, our terminal em

Re: sysinstall colours

2009-10-10 Thread jhell
On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 06:21, alexbestms@ wrote: of course sysinstall has a ton of problems and should be replaced. no doubt about it. but look at it from this angle: You should really ask what the FreeBSD angle on this is. It is really well versed and well planned out and covers many areas amo

Re: sysinstall colours

2009-10-10 Thread Alexander Best
opers point of view but i just found this > > beautiful > > screenie of a (probably) ncurse-based installer: > > http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id=yoper_2009_beta&image=yoper_dresden_7_lrg > > i was surprised how much better it looks with those nice colours > >

Re: sysinstall colours

2009-10-10 Thread Alexander Best
gt; >screenie of a (probably) ncurse-based installer: > >http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id=yoper_2009_beta&image=yoper_dre > >sden_7_lrg > >i was surprised how much better it looks with those nice colours > >compared to > >sysinstall. > >is there an

Re: sysinstall colours

2009-10-10 Thread Paul B Mahol
onix.net/image.php?id=yoper_2009_beta&image=yoper_dresden_7_lrg > > i was surprised how much better it looks with those nice colours compared to > sysinstall. > > is there any way the sysinstall colours could be adjusted (without a lot of > work) to also feature such b

Re: sysinstall colours

2009-10-09 Thread Randi Harper
e of a (probably) ncurse-based installer: > > > http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id=yoper_2009_beta&image=yoper_dresden_7_lrg > > i was surprised how much better it looks with those nice colours compared > to > sysinstall. > > is there any way the sysinstall colo

Re: sysinstall colours

2009-10-09 Thread james toy
Alexander, ==8<== >> http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id=yoper_2009_beta&image=yoper_dresden_7_lrg ==8<== The head maintainer of Yoper; Tobias G, runs a kernel patchset I work on from http://zen-sources.org as his default kernel. I am sure he would be more than happy to discuss some of their

Re: sysinstall colours

2009-10-09 Thread jhell
/image.php?id=yoper_2009_beta&image=yoper_dresden_7_lrg i was surprised how much better it looks with those nice colours compared to sysinstall. is there any way the sysinstall colours could be adjusted (without a lot of work) to also feature such beautiful colours? i had a quick look at the sysins

sysinstall colours

2009-10-09 Thread Alexander Best
g i was surprised how much better it looks with those nice colours compared to sysinstall. is there any way the sysinstall colours could be adjusted (without a lot of work) to also feature such beautiful colours? i had a quick look at the sysinstall, libdialog and ncurses sources and to me it seems