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From: Taras Glek <taras.glek@××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GUi installer brainstorm
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2002 17:52:08
Message-Id: 1010361143.654.4.camel@vaio
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GUi installer brainstorm by Geert Bevin
1 On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 15:21, Geert Bevin wrote:
2 > On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 00:12, Taras Glek wrote:
3 > > Why is a gui needed to do an installer? One could do a ncurses based
4 >
5 > Because I personally like it.
6 If you absolutely need a gui installer, why not use a non-qt one. Afaik
7 the qt one requires that you write your apps in C++, and I don't know
8 how many drivers it supports. Alternatively stuff like microwindows and
9 directfb are more toolkit/language idependant and are somewhat less
10 propriatory.
11 >
12 > > console "gui" that would be just as useful, but wouldn't depend on shaky
13 > > things like framebuffer(not all cards do vesa, some do it better/worse
14 > > than others), imho using a console interface, sort of like the one in
15 > > dos borland ides would be more than sufficient.
16 >
17 > Ideally though, there should be 2 versions.
18 >
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20 > Geert Bevin
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