Christian Perrier wrote:
Yesterday, I first launched the graphical installer demo ISO assembled by Attilio. So great work....Finally we see this beast..:-) Of course, this lead me to several remarks, which I put here randomly, as thoughts for the future. And there are probably lots of others. -the use of the screen space is not optimal
This is true especially related to the main-menu hack: since the main-menu hack already suffers of two bugs (#322460 and #322464) i'll temporary disable it.
-the boxes should be resizable so that text always fits in them (this is veyr true for the progress bar texts)
If the main-menu hack is disabled then the progressbar will be wider, so that text doesn't exceeds is width
-the long description of the former screen should be erased when a step using the progress bar is running
i think this is #322376.. right, needs to be fixed.
-base-config will have to be graphical as well....or just disappear
base config should be tested deeper: i've never been able to make it work, at the moment :(
-how can one reach a virtual console to see logs and all this stuff, or just open a shell ?
Davide's aswers is correct: depending on the used frontend, d-i should tell the user how to reach the console and then came back to the d-i. Yesterday i've rewritten the frontend to comply with GNOME 2.0 guidelines: i'll to produce a new and netinst cd iso soon (this time with indic fonts and amazing graphics & talented artworks, not by me, of course ;). As soon as libgtk+2.0-directfb0-udeb will be ready (Alastair should be working on this) i'll try to produce a less hacky iso based on regular udebs inside the frontend rather that on the files coming from the testcase. During the last d-i IRC chat came up the idea to create an automated mechanism to be able to build ISOs including the GTK frontend: ny progress on this?
ciao attilio