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On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 01:07, Tiemo Kieft wrote: |
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> > 3. Gtk2: I am thinking that this may not be the best interface to use. |
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> > How will this fair with those putting gentoo on very slow/old machines. |
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> > Also for those doing an install through ssh would not be able to benifit |
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> > from this. Maybe curses would be the way to go? There are already many |
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> > tools that are already made for curses(menuconfig, ufed, net-setup). Or |
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> > heck maybe there could be support for both. |
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> This actually is one of the requirements for the installer as well as |
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> the config tools. It was discussed in the desktop-research meeting. We |
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> really want to support both. |
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I think it's a pretty silly idea to support multiple backends. Afaic |
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it's about a GUI installer, so ncurses isn't really what we are after. |
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You always will get compared to other installers which aren't curses |
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anymore. The people installing over SSH aren't the new users a GUI |
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installer is targeted at anyway. |
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As far as the choice for a widget set, gtk2 seems logical to me. It may |
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be allegedly slow on older systems, but we're talking about 3 buttons on |
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a screen here. And if the installer is considered slow, well what's |
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gonna happen when someone does a GRP install of stable GNOME or KDE. |
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That's gonna be real slow desktop-ing. |
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You just shouldn't try to create something like an installer for |
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everybody, just target your wanted audience and thats it. I'd say the |
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target audience here is new (linux) users on fairly up-to-date systems. |
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What i saw from the installer here is pretty much what I'd like to see |
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from a final product : only a few steps, basic system setup so you can |
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be up and installing in no-time, don't ask for conformation on all sorts |
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of specific apps you never heard of (eg. in a desktop situation it's |
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hard enough for a new person to know the difference between GNOME & |
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KDE). For an 'expert mode' I would point to our well documented manual |
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installation process. |
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- foser |
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