Re: First impressions on installing Debian 1.3 (and an idea!)
> > I think the a frustrating thing with Linux is finding out what's
> > available. I think what would attract people to Linux is *showing* them
> > all that's available.
>
> You mean package-wise?
Yeah.
> > What's missing is an X tool to display the
> > package description from a file (or a part extracted from a file). I
> > don't do windows...
>
> It'd probably be pretty easy to write something basic but useful in
> tcl/tk, which is a relatively standard installation. It has lots of
> "display this text"-sortof commands. And it frontends well to most things.
Right.
I'm not sure if fvwm95 menu entries calling a simple tk/tcl program to
display info on one package is better than a styandalone tk/tcl package
to provide info on all available packages. The standalone package
could be used with any window manager.
I just like the idea of Debain shipping with fvwm95 menus filled with
entries describing hundreds of packages :-)
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