GTK FE, "execute a shell" main menu item
Hi
as you may know the "execute a shell" main-menu item is broken, so far
i've explored two solutions
1) developing a shell-gtk udeb that contains a gtk app that opens a
shell in a new window and that can be hidden/close when you click a
button or type "exit".
THis can be done using
-ZVT terminal widget, but this is GTK 1.x based and so is obsolete
-VTE terminal widget, but this requires GTK >=2.2 while we're still on
GTKDFB 2.0.9.
I've anyway created such an app: even if it works correctly with GTKX
crashes with GTKDFB 2.8.3 (i've heard that VTE works only with GTKX but
i'm not so sure about this).
2) Creating a new NOTE question that gets displayed to the user when he
clicks on "Execute a shell".
This note should tell the user, more or less, something like "Press
ctrl+alt+f2 to reacha a shell and then press ctrl+alt+f6 to come back to
the installer"
I think option 2 could be the best choiche to temporarily and quickly
fix the broken "execute a shell" item before graphical d-i anounce while
we think of something better.
ciao
Attilio
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