Re: Graphical install idea

[Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@pilot.msu.edu>]

Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@ull.es> writes:

   I've moved all widget toolkit dependent code to boxes.c to ease changing
   to a different toolkit. If you are going to write a replacement and need
   any help let me know. Altough there's not much space on the rescue disk,
   an optional graphical boot disk for the CDs would be a nice "bragging
   point". :-)

That's the essential reason for it in my mind.  I'm not impressed by
graphics, and I doubt whether most of the Debian developers are.  But
you'd be surprised how many people saw the Solaris x86 login screen
when I had that running on a machine here and instantly said `cool'
just because it was graphical, and lots of people assume that my
machine sucks[*] just because it runs in text mode most of the time.
It would be something good, if only for giving a good first impression
to newbies and the press.

[*] It definitely does not: 233 PII, 128 MB RAM, 3x4.1 GB UW SCSI HDDs.