On Thursday 27 October 2005 10:37, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: > -"error", "text", "note" questions in the GTK FE are displayed by the > same question handler, while the NEWT FE flashes in red the screen when > an error question is diplayed. > Shouldn't also the GTK FE act somehow this way, maybe displaying a "i" > icon aside the question when displaying a "note" or a "text" question, > an "!" icon when displaying an error? > Eduard, can you draw those icons? if i'm not wrong some times ago you > drew an "i" (red) inside a circle (red) icon in some of your > screenshots This is something I have been considering as well. When designing a solution, we do need to keep in mind that it has to work for all languages, so we should try to keep to internationally accepted icons. > -When pressing "ESC" you get back to the main menu: should the GTK > frontend implement such a functionality? > > -It would be nice if you could automatically activate "Back" button by > pressing "BackDel" key (the key above "Enter" on the keyboard) Note that that key has another function when editing text in a field. I'm not sure if it should get another function as well. > -A text is displayed in the bottom part of the screen and tells the > user about shortcut shortcut commands: shall the GTK FE display this > string too? maybe in a statusbar at the bottom of the screen? Having a status bar could be a good idea, but not high priority IMO. > -As "execute a shell", neither "configure base sytem" works in the GTK > FE Maybe we should suppress those functions for now. Maybe a new "shell-gtk" udeb is needed instead of the current one? Guess that depends on the reasons for the failure. Thinking out load... A shell-gtk udeb could open a shell in a new window and be hidden when you click the main window with an icon showing to activate the shell again. Maybe we could also show icons by default that open a window (with scrollbar) showing logfiles (instead of having to switch to VT3/4)... Maybe we should have a menu that allows the user to select such functions. Ah well, nice ideas for future development :-)
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