Re: GTK frontend, more user-friendliness problems to solve
On 5/18/05, Attilio Fiandrotti <fiandro@tiscalinet.it> wrote:
> Hi
>
> *When a main-menu step is completed the next step is "highligtened"
> because by putting focus on the corresponding button in the main-menu in
> the left area of the screen.
>
> This could be not so clear a newbie to the debian instalation system,
> nor is clear that clicking on the highlightened button in the main menu
> or on the forward button are equivalent actions (in newt this problem
> doesn't arise since the next step to do is clearly marked)
> I came up with two solutions
>
Take care that the Debian Installer system permits (in case of
failure) to return to the main menu and execute an arbitrary step
that was already ran.
> -Bold text inside the button that has focus on it (is this possible in GTK?)
> -The text (example : "Configure the network" ) could be wrapped between
> "->" and "<-" (it would be then "-> Configure the network <-")
I was thinking of an increased button, relative to the others
> I know there are still more important problems
like modifing cdebconf :) to support non-blocking questions to allow
many widgets on a single window (mimicking newt is just plain wrong)
to think about but i
> think it wouldn't be bad starting to think about user-friendliness of
> the installer, since switching to GTK from NEWT comports many problems
> like those i've mentioned above.
I agree.
In about 2 weeks I will be available, so if you have any ideas and you
don't have time to implement, then, please, contact me. I might be
avaliable.
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Regards,
EddyP
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