From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jun 23 13:16:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA26827 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 13:16:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA26795 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 13:16:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA06856; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 13:16:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: Stefan Eggers cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Release schedule for 2.2.7 In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 23 Jun 1998 21:50:39 +0200." <199806231950.VAA29552@semyam.dinoco.de> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 13:16:03 -0700 Message-ID: <6852.898632963@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > If someone has a good idea where I could place sizes on the screen and > how you think it should look when it finally lists all packages (just > before it starts to install them) and asks if that list is OK that Put it where the corresponding port name is now or make a composite display string with size/description info. The short description is already displayed on the status line when you traverse over the package so you really have a fair bit of flexibility in how you want to display the menu text. The port path is really just a place-holder I've been using for lack of anything better to put there. :-) > To the latter I think putting the size to the left of a package in > KByte and MByte (depending on the size) will be the right thing. It Um, the package name is already the menu prompt string and trying to put anything "to the left" of that will only cause you major woe on the side-effects. I think you need to go look at libdialog a bit next before you go making any interface decisions. It imposes its own set of constraints which you need to be aware of. :-) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message