Re: Re: cdebconf - backup support in text frontend
Joey Hess wrote:
> Bastian Blank wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 12:25:34AM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
> > > It has not started, but it can be finished very fast when specifications
> > > are written. There are several problems with this frontend:
> > > * As you wrote in another message, progress bars are unreadable on
> > > dumb terminals. Maybe replacing \r by \n is enough?
> >
> > Yes, it produces many output but should be acceptable.
>
> Hmm, depending on the terminal type, it may work to just print one line.
> I'm thinking of something like this:
>
> Scanning hardware..10%..20%..30%..40%..50%..
>
> If the terminal uses line buffered output, this won't work; if it can
> display new parts of a line as they are written (and flushed), it might
> be better. It should also be reasonably usable with screen readers.
>
> Note that "Scanning hardware" is the constant title, not the progress
> bar text.
>
> --
> see shy jo
>
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