Re: FWD: Bug#54250: tasksel: UI consistency with whiptail/dialog (long)
Randolph Chung wrote:
> Joey made some good points here. Please note that tasksel is in the boot
> floppies cvs in the utilities/tasksel subdirectory. If anyone would like to
> tackle some of these items, please feel free. I will likely be quite busy
> with other things for the next 4-5 days.
I'll probably do a few myself. A bit confused about tasksel's source though.
Main source is boot-floppies cvs, but it has its own source package?
> thanks,
> randolph
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> -----
>
> Subject: Bug#54250: tasksel: UI consistency with whiptail/dialog (long)
> Reply-To: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>, 54250@bugs.debian.org
> Date: 7 Jan 2000 04:26:41 -0000
> From: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
> To: submit@bugs.debian.org
>
> Package: tasksel
> Version: 1.0-2
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Since tasksel is going to be used in the initial install (after reboot),
> meshed in with several other questions asked via debconf and whiptail, I
> think it'd be useful if it's interface was a bit more similar to that of
> whiptail.
>
> This is just a couple of points of different I observed comparing tasksel and
> whiptail --checklist foo 10 30 3 foo '' '' baz '' '' bar '' '' --title foo --backtitle bar
>
> * Whiptail uses square brackets to indicate a multiselect list. Ie,
> "[ ] foo" and "[ ] foo". Since it uses "( )" for radio buttons, tasksel's
> use of them for multiselct is confusing.
> * Whiptail puts a highlight right in the middle of the brackets. This
> naturally leads the eye to them, and indicates that you are going to
> effect that part of the display. (I personally think that whiptail should
> then reposition the cursor to be on top of the highlight it just printed,
> but it doesn't do that.. You might want to consider doing so. OTOH, I
> personally like the say dialog handles the whole thing better, with the
> highlight bar..)
> * Whiptail and dialog let you put a prompt in the box with the list. I
> suggest you move the "Select the task package(s) appropriate for your
> system:" line down and inside the box to comply.
> * Whiptail and dialog left justify the screen title, while tasksel centers it.
> * If you run "whiptail --title foo --checklist foo 10 30 2 foo '' '' baz ''
> '' bar '' '' --backtitle foo", you can see how it handles scrolling. A
> scroll bar for tasksel would be a great enhancement, though a bit more
> ambitious than the rest of the changes I am requesting. (And who am I to
> talk, I still haven't bothered to put one in pdmenu.. :-) Dialog's appoach is
> much simpler, BTW, just little indicators top and bottom if there is more
> up/down there.
> * I think you'd do well to kill the line at the bottom of the screen and
> turn most of what's there into buttons. "<Task Info> <Exit> <Help>". This
> would leave it up to the user to discover enter/space toggles a selection
> and tab cycles to the buttons, but that's pretty idiomatic anyway.
> * The OK buttons in the help page and task info screen would be more in line
> with whiptail if they were blue, and were "<OK>".
> * If you run "whiptail --checklist foo 10 42 3 foo 'The foo package rocks'
> '' baz 'Another awesome package!' '' bar 'something' '' --title foo", you
> can see how it handles tags followed by descriptive text. I think tasksel
> is calling out for the same thing, there needs to be a fixed size separator
> between the task name and the short description.
>
> Sorry for the length and multiple points of this bug report. Do not feel all
> points must be answered for this bug to be closed; that'd be unfair.
>
> -- System Information
> Debian Release: potato
> Kernel Version: Linux kite 2.2.13 #1 Sat Dec 18 14:38:41 PST 1999 i686 unknown
>
> Versions of the packages tasksel depends on:
> ii libc6 2.1.2-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
> ii slang1 1.3.9-1 The S-Lang programming library - runtime ver
>
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