Re: GTK frontend updated, please test unofficial miniiso

[Attilio Fiandrotti <fiandro@tiscalinet.it>]

Eduardo Silva wrote:
> Hi,
> These where the only bugs I could find:
>
> 1 - Exiting to a shell using the menu option doesn't
> work: When clicking Continue button after the
> explanation screen, the frontend freezes. If we go to
> the console manually with ctrl+alt+f1 then go back
> using alt+left or alt+right, the frontend appears,
> after a while, showing the menu screen.

yes, it's true, "exit to shell" does not work, maybe because an 
appropriate gtk_shutdown() has never been implemented in gtk.c?
Here i'm supposing that when exiting to shell this frontend's protocol 
function is called by cdebconf..
I'll investigate!

> 2 - In portuguese, text which is in both bold and
> italic has some letters in bold, and others in italic.

This happens often to me too using GTKDFB 2.0.9, but never if GTKDFB 
2.8.3 or GTKX is used..

> You asked:
>
> > Shall the progressbar be NEWT-like (title above it,
> > current action below 
> > it) or GNOME HIG-compliant (current action displayed
> > inside the 
> > progressbar, title displayed above it) ?
>
>
> I think that there definitely should exist a Debian
> HIG :) Not wanting to reinvent the wheel, the GNOME
> HIG as well as other HIG's should be adopted and
> adapted for Debian purposes. For example, the NEWT
> progress bar is more informative than the curren
> GNOME-HIG compliant progress bar: it shows the
> percentage of the global operation, as well as the
> specific action the installer is currently performing.
> Is this something we/you want users to know when
> installing Debian?
> I admit that the current progress bar showing a "this
> may take a few minutes" message is cleaner, and less
> daunting. Information versus Simplicity, or can't we
> have both?
progressbar's collocation and aspect is the last main issue to solve...

thanks & ciao

attilio