Re: slang wierdness in woody install
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 02:13:15PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > When doing a Woody install from floppies, the borders on the
> > newt dialog windows are broken. They're either missing
> > entirely (most of the installer) or garbage characters that
> > cause layout errors (module loading sub-system).
> >
> > I've seen this on two systems so far.
> >
> > Myabe I've got broken floppies???
>
> Nope, I understand it's a limitation of slang with the frame buffer
> console used with some versions of the boot-floppies. It's a tradeoff
> between good borders and nice language support in the language chooser.
The lack of borders isn't bad, but in the module installer
section, it draws garbage characters for borders and they take
up more space than they're supposed to, so the widgets don't
get drawn in the correct location. If you're careful, you can
figure out what's going on, but it's a bit disorienting.
--
Grant Edwards
grante@visi.com
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