Bug#191079: How to request different colors in the dialogs

[Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@computer.org>]

As discussion on this appears to have gone silent, I propose that we
then add an error method to cdebconf.

Any objections?

- Alastair


On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 22:41, Martin Sjögren wrote:
> mån 2003-05-05 klockan 19.35 skrev Joey Hess:
> > Alastair McKinstry wrote:
> > > It is possible, and probably a good idea, to set different colors in
> > > warning dialogs, or at least icons, as gnome, etc do it.
> > > 
> > > But how do we pass information to the frontend to say that this is a
> > > particular type of dialog, eg error dialog?
> > > 
> > > We could overload the text , eg. scan the title, if it says "ERROR: "
> > > then its an error dialog, but thats language sensitive.
> > > 
> > > Are we willing to add new dialog types to cdebconf, and if so, which
> > > ones?
> > 
> > If it helps, I have thought from time to time about making the note
> > template type a no-op in debconf and introducing a new error template
> > type.
> 
> But it still makes sense to have a type for presenting a short piece of
> information to the user, doesn't it?
> 
> Having both "note" and "error" works for me.
> 
> 
> /Martin