On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 05:07:57PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > I've added a newt terminal plugin to trunk, which I'd like to start > using in a couple of places for squeeze, allowing us to fix #378706 > (manual package selection) and #412168 (rescue mode trouble with > TERM=bterm). This also required exporting a few fairly trivial extra > interfaces from the cdebconf newt frontend. Nice! :) > * Much more significantly, though, newt is probably already displaying a > * window. In order to do a good enough job to be able to run a full-screen > * curses application such as aptitude, we need to tell it to tear > * everything down, and then we need to put it all back so that it doesn't > * look dreadful when we exit (particularly if e.g. a progress bar is being > * displayed). The GTK+ plugin probably does not handle this properly and would require some adjustments… While I am thinking about it, Obey Arthur Liu did some very nice work in adding a GTK+ frontend to aptitude. I wonder if it could be used directly within the installer… Cheers, -- Jérémy Bobbio
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