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Re: New newt terminal plugin



On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 01:31:29PM +0100, Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 05:07:57PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> >  * 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…

You mean with the progress bar, or something else? I confess I haven't
actually looked, but I'd have thought that the GTK+ plugin creates a new
window and so doesn't suffer from any of these problems.

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]


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