Bug#214916: Debconf question for configuring modules is hard to answer
Hi Enrico,
> On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Enrico Zini wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 01:32:36PM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
> >
> > > > - Module names have no description
> > > They have a descrition but it is not shown. The main issue is that the
> > > descriptions are very long and they do not fit in few chars.
> >
> > Then we've probably got a usability problem, which can only be solved by
> > debconf implementing a multiple selection box for items with a long
> > description attached.
> >
> > Should I send a wishlist bug to them?
> >
>
> Let me see if i can work something out first my side. afaik debconf
> support horizontal scrolling.. never had the time to play with it.
I did try adding the descriptions but as i expected it doesn't work fine.
Quoting from man 7 debconf-devel:
"Be careful, since it is not word-wrapped, if it's too wide it will look
bad. Using it for short items is best (so this is a bad example)."
This applies to our case as well and there is no horizontal scrolling :/
> > > > My suggested correction would be to include a description for every
> > > > module,
> > > probably this would be a "wontfix" but all this things in one bug make it
> > > impossible at the moment. Let's take one step at a time.
> >
> > I can report it as a separate bug if you want
>
> Just wait.. if we agree on the other things this can be retitled.
as above...
> > For this reason I think it's a good idea to explicitly document in the
> > dialog box that when that debconf dialog is run for the first time on an
> > existing apache configuration, the defaults have been imported from the
> > existing httpd.conf (or whatever) file.
>
> OK i will see about it for -3/-4 i need to get -2 in to fix all the other
> breakage first
Technically i cannot do this. the template is one and shared. If i
add/remove text from the template i will hit localization problems.
Please let me know how you prefer to handle this bug. I perfectly
understand what you are asking for and i agree to it but i cannot do much
at the moment due to other limitation in the system.
Fabio
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