Frans Pop wrote:
On Thursday 22 September 2005 10:01, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:-the use of the screen space is not optimalThis 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.Would it be possible to use a separate (modal) window for the main menu that pops up when the menu is active?
not so easily, and i doubt this could improve frontend's usability: the main-menu hack needs still a lot of work before it can be really used, but i think that model windows should be avoided.
-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 widthThat's not really a clean solution IMO.The non-graphical installer has the percentage inside the menu bar and the messages in multiple lines (2 by default, but can be extended) below it. IMO a similar solution would be preferable to having one single very long line inside the progress bar.
I should investigate to see if the text inside progressbar can be splitted in multiple lines; we could even swap the text inside the progressbar and the text below the progressbar, since the latter is a GtkLabel that can be splitted in multiple lines.
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?I plan to work on this this weekend.
great! ciao Attilio