> It's hard to tell right now what is going to make sense as far as a > GUI front end, as we've seen by this discussion. I think we're converging on what would make sense. > What I saw of gtk-fb looked really neat, pretty, etc. In fact, the > first thing that came to my mind was, "Wouldn't that look neat for > debian-installer". I haven't looked at the bogl front end, so I can't > compare how they 'look'. I think it would be neat to have a really > attractive UI, with the debian logo in the background, a progress bar > listing the steps that the fully automated install was going through, > and a window with interesting text (Debian for newbies, a history of > Debian, the Social Contract, DFSG, etc. the user can choose what they > are interested in) to read during boring parts (download over ppp). > There are a number of ways to arrive at that, and in my eyes it isn't > priority at this point. My thoughts exactly. > Since a gtk front end is already on the cdebconf TODO, the interested > parties could write that, as Randolph suggested. I assume that after > that is written, if a gtk-fb UI is desired it would be trivial to > enable it, correct? Then we'd be arguing over what the default > graphical UI should be, that would be more fun. I believe it would. We'll see. -- Chris Ruffin <cmruffin@debian.org>
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