On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 05:31:54PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen scribbled: > * Jo Dillon > > | Hi...I saw today that Debian is working on a new graphical installer, > | probably gtkfb based. How wedded are you to that? I'm a former Trolltech > | employee and one of the people who wrote Qt/Embedded; I might be interested > | in writing/helping to write a Qt/E-based installer, if there's sufficient > | interest in that. > > We are basing the installer around cdebconf, which can use any > frontend: text, slang, gtkfb, corba, whatever. Somebody just have to > write it. I think having both Qt and gtkfb frontends might be > duplication of work, but if you'd like to do that: go ahead. If it > works well, the Qt frontend might be the default. I'd like to work on the gtkfb frontend once I'm familiar enough with the debian-installer code (I'm in the process of getting acquainted with it right now). marek
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