Re: Using the slang frontend for CD installs

[Mario Lang <mlang@debian.org>]

barbier@linuxfr.org (Denis Barbier) writes:

> On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 12:30:21AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
>> The boolean dialog should accept [enter] to choose yes/no, instead of
>> having to move to the <next> button to continue.
> [...]
>
> How should [enter] key work?
>   a.  Select and go to next step
>   b.  Let current selection active and go to next step

I'd definitely vote for a).  Everything else (including
having to TAB to <next>) is not really intuitive IMHO.

> Please consider also that you know what you type; some people may
> hit [enter] key whereas input is wrong, this is why I prefer it
> being active only on <next> button.

debconfs dialog frontend allows the use of <Enter> to confirm
and go to next item.  I dont think we should do it differently
for cdebconf.

-- 
CYa,
  Mario