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foser <foser@g.o> said: |
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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. |
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Can you give me example of installer that aren't ncurses anymore? |
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redhat, mandrake, debian, slackware have all ncurses/newt option |
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> 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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agreed on that. gtk2 or qt or whatever, just need to choose. I prefere gtk2 |
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because of the language binding possibilities, but it's only my opinion |
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dams |
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