Bug#138653: boot-floppies: Language chooser '#' on right hand side looks funny

[Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>]

On Sun, 2002-03-17 at 11:37, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> This should probably be conditional depending on the
> number of languages (can we determine it at compile-time?)
> Apparently, NEWT_FLAG_SCROLL forces having a scroll bar.

You can put an upper bound on the number of languages at compile time,
but the exact set that will be offered is only known at runtime.  It
depends on the presence of a language pack on CD-ROM, the setting of
langs_root for your architecture.  And, on i386 at least, the 1.2MB root
disks have a different (smaller) set of core languages.

To be honest the scroll bar as it stands is not very beneficial even if
there are more languages than will fit on the screen.  It probably looks
better if newt is able to use graphics characters, but at the moment
they are not available for any LC-enabled build.  So I think we might
just as well turn it off altogether.

p.