Re: Slang (Sid)
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 10:28:22PM -0400 , Joey Hess wrote:
> Jon Eisenstein wrote:
> > Is there something seriously wrong with slang now (rather, for a few
> > months now), or is it just happening on the three computers I've installed
> > Debian on? If what I'm describing isn't slang, I apologize, but there's
> > still a problem.
> >
> > Anything that uses what I think is the slang frontend (e.g. debconf,
> > apt-listchanges, querybts...) has major display problems, most troubling
> > that the buttons (Ok, Cancel, etc) look awful and make it hard to tell
> > what you're selecting.
> >
> > If I press enter on, for example, Ok, it looks like the following:
> >
> > Ok (original button)
> > Ok (presumably the button being clicked)
> >
> > If it's just me, does anybody know how I might fix it? If it's
> > Debian-wide, I would just like to know that it is a known problem and is
> > presumably being worked on.
>
> I haven't seen that one, but I have seen and heard of a number of
> problems. I think quite a few of them trace back to the wide-character
> support patch which was applied 1 month ago. I tracked a bug in pdmenu back
> to that today -- grrr..
YES. but it doesn't usually appear on C or en_US locale. it's really ugly
(without the frame, wrong possition of widgets, scroll bar nonexistatn ..)
I've exchanged several mail on this topic with Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS author
of that patch, but it somehow fainted
> Anyway, the slang frontend for debconf certianly has no code that would
> shift an Ok button down like that when you click on it.
>
> IMHO, the wide character support patch is causing far too many problems,
> and needs to be reverted.
/me thinks the same
Petr Cech
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