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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