Bug#191079: How to request different colors in the dialogs
As discussion on this appears to have gone silent, I propose that we
then add an error method to cdebconf.
Any objections?
- Alastair
On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 22:41, Martin Sjögren wrote:
> mån 2003-05-05 klockan 19.35 skrev Joey Hess:
> > Alastair McKinstry wrote:
> > > It is possible, and probably a good idea, to set different colors in
> > > warning dialogs, or at least icons, as gnome, etc do it.
> > >
> > > But how do we pass information to the frontend to say that this is a
> > > particular type of dialog, eg error dialog?
> > >
> > > We could overload the text , eg. scan the title, if it says "ERROR: "
> > > then its an error dialog, but thats language sensitive.
> > >
> > > Are we willing to add new dialog types to cdebconf, and if so, which
> > > ones?
> >
> > If it helps, I have thought from time to time about making the note
> > template type a no-op in debconf and introducing a new error template
> > type.
>
> But it still makes sense to have a type for presenting a short piece of
> information to the user, doesn't it?
>
> Having both "note" and "error" works for me.
>
>
> /Martin
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