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Re: GTK fe, updated buglist and wishlist



On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 12:53:35PM +0200, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:
> Hi
> 
> The more i try to fix bugs the more new problems seem to show up.
> It also seems to me that many improvements to the GTK frontend i'm 
> planning to do someday will require deeper revisitation of the 
> frontend_data structure in order to override limitations inherited by 
> the newt frontend ancestor.

d-i is growing for over two years,
so don't worry that the GTK frontend wasn't fixed in one month.

> 
> ciao
> 
> Attilio
> 
> *   BUGS TO FIX
> 
> (NEW) - If the user jumps to the same main-menu item where he already is 
 <snip/> 
> - The following one is a problem that is related to the jump from a 
 <snip/> 
> -When the partitioning prorgam runs progress bar values are not handled 
 <snip/> 
> 
> *   TODO LIST
> 
> (NEW) -The help textarea has a surrounding frame whose label could be 
 <snip/> 
> (NEW) -A question's extended description (if is not an ampty string 
 <snip/> 
> (NEW) -The progress bar should be encapsulated inside a frame whose 
 <snip/> 
> -The main-menu tag thing is awfully hardcoded; we'd like to be able to 
 <snip/> 
> -The "Do you want to save your changes before jumping?" question inside 
 <snip/> 
> -remove deprecated gtk functions with gtk+ replacements as recomended by 
 <snip/> 
> -Allow every widget (not only multiselect, like now) to properly handle 
 <snip/> 
> -verify that gtk_init() input parameters, that are hand-created, are no 
 <snip/> 
> -remove "progressbar" from the progressbar or turn it into something 
 <snip/> 
> -Give the boxes fixed size (width and height) since actually boxes 
 <snip/> 
> -make the "cancel" button in jump confirmation dialog work to allow the 
> user to cancel a jump if he changes his mind
> 
> 
> *   WISH LIST
> 
> -clearly highlight the next step of the instalation to be configured ( 
 <snip/> 
> -chechmarks for every configured main menu item: after an installation 
 <snip/> 
> -display the main menu with something different than buttons. The column 
 <snip/> 
> -The action area is left empty when only main menu is displayed: we 
 <snip/> 
> -while progress bar runs to take count of the progress of steps like the 
 <snip/> 
> -modify some installation tools to get the best out of the gtk frontend 
 <snip/> 
> 
> *   TERMPORARILY ABANDONED IDEAS
> 
> -It might be a good idea to design for the possibility of having more 
 <snip/> 
> -disable main menu options that need previous steps to be completed: if 
 <snip/> 


Please use a file in the version control system for that.


Cheers
Geert Stappers

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