On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 12:29:47PM +0200, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > Thus spake Marcus Crafter (crafterm@dresdnerbank.de): > > > I wanted to ask everyone about their thoughts about creating a > > graphical installer for Debian. I have some ideas - is there > > interest in hearing them ? > > I personally am a bit sceptical about a graphical installer: you'll > probably have technical difficulties in getting X running (will it fit > on a disk, for example), while IMO there are no real advantages of a > graphical installer over a curses-based one. as am i, i have yet to meet an X based installer i didn't hate. IMHO if you really want mouse support (the current curses based installer IS graphical IMO) then i think it would be better to use gpm, for an example of how this works see mc on the console. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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