Bug#60371: base, installation glitches (configure network, start new system)

[Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>]

Ben Collins wrote:
> > was on YES, when it was on NO, and when I thought I said NO, it went and
> > scanned my CD-ROM again.  This confusion could be avoided by putting another
> > button on there, perhaps CANCEL (==NO).  Then it would be obvious which one
> > was highlighted (2 unhighlighted vs 1 highlighted).  I'm not an
> > unintelligent user.  If it fooled me, it will fool others.
> 
> Agreed, I ran into this problem aswell. Really confusing.

Well, you can just watch the cursor, which is always on top of the selected
button.

I have gotten this problem fixed in dialog already, by the simple method of
making the default button color the same as the window background, so it's
clear the selected button is different. Bug #54265 against whiptail
proposes the same solution, but has not yet been done.

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