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Re: GTK frontend, compatibility mode planned



22 серпня 2005 о 12:44 +0200 Attilio Fiandrotti написав(-ла):
> Hi *
> 
> I think it's time to add to the GTK frontend an option that allows it to 
> operate in a classical fashion, without main-menu  being always displayed.
> At the beginning this will be a compile-time choice (a variable value 
> inside the source code) that tells the frontend to operate in standard 
> or jump way.
> I think this modification is useful since:
> -The "standard" part of the frontend is relatively stable, while most of 
> the bugs in the frontend and strange behaviours are related to the jump 
> parts
> -(c)debconf is a general purpose configuration tool so, even if it's 
> used only by debian-installer, it may happen it is used in a fashion 
> where a main-menu to be displayed does not even exist and so having a 
> main-menu does not make sense.
> -the main-menu in the left part of the screen steals space (pixels) to 
> the other widgets and, with a 640x480 screen resolution, this could be a 
> problem.
it is a problem even with 800x600 resolution. Some strings do not fit in
progress bar for example. Maybe it is possible to make it like <select>
element in HTML and button "Go"? And there is still a problem because
menu will not be updated when needed.

> 
> I'm thinking of more improvements too, this time related to the 
> graphical aspect of the frontend.
> One of the requests i've heard about is to make the frontend less 
> "gray": we could add optional top banner and left banner around the 
> frontend.
It is just waste of space (both on screen and in RAM) IMHO.

> the frontend could look for, let's say, cdebconfgtk_top.png and 
> cdebconfgtk_left.png (wide and short the first, tight and tall the 
> other) and, if it those files are found, display them; otherwise, if no 
> pngs are found, nothing is displayed and no space is stolen to the 
> interface.
To display those pngs someone need to package pixbuf loaders for d-i, or
are they displayed some other way?

> the result should be something like this screenshot
> 
> https://debian.polito.it/downloads/gtk_frontend_logos.jpg
> 
> where i experimentally used a top banner (i guess the left banner should 
> be used only if mainmenu is not displayed, in order not to steal too 
> space to the interface)
> This could be also useful for debian branding, as an old posts requested.
/me thinks about lagre amount of fuzzy string with remove word "Debian"

-- 
Eugeniy Meshcheryakov

Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University
Information and Computing Centre
http://icc.univ.kiev.ua

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