Re: Re: cdebconf - backup support in text frontend

[bornagain@gibnynex.gi]

Joey Hess wrote:
> Bastian Blank wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 12:25:34AM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
> > > It has not started, but it can be finished very fast when specifications
> > > are written.  There are several problems with this frontend:
> > >   * As you wrote in another message, progress bars are unreadable on
> > >     dumb terminals.  Maybe replacing \r by \n is enough?
> > 
> > Yes, it produces many output but should be acceptable.
> 
> Hmm, depending on the terminal type, it may work to just print one line.
> I'm thinking of something like this:
> 
> Scanning hardware..10%..20%..30%..40%..50%..
> 
> If the terminal uses line buffered output, this won't work; if it can
> display new parts of a line as they are written (and flushed), it might
> be better. It should also be reasonably usable with screen readers. 
> 
> Note that "Scanning hardware" is the constant title, not the progress
> bar text.
> 
> -- 
> see shy jo
> 
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