From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 17 6:42:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.infowest.com (ns1.infowest.com [204.17.177.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7D0037B40C for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 06:42:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from beware.dragonknight.net (unknown [208.186.107.192]) by ns1.infowest.com (Postfix) with SMTP id E5CB521202; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 07:42:39 -0600 (MDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Samuel Greear To: Sheldon Hearn , hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Recent changes to libdialog are weird Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 07:42:24 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <95560.100 In-Reply-To: <95560.100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01091707422403.00758@beware.dragonknight.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday 17 September 2001 05:44 am, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > Recently, libdialog's use of tab, space and enter seems to have changed. > Now, space and enter mean the same thing. Before, enter was a > context-insensitive short-cut to the currently selected dialogue > "submit" button. > > What many folks may not realize is that the new behaviour, while "safer" > than what we had before, makes libdialog behave differently from at > least Motif, Windows, JavaAWT, JavaSwing. > > So what we have now is a libdialog that protects the finger-happy, while > confounding those who expect "pretty standard behaviour". > > I reckon if sysinstall needs to be weird, sysinstall should use its own > weird version of libdialog and leave the distributed libdialog alone. > > Ciao, > Sheldon. The new changes suck, they've been annoying the hell out of me. The first time I installed, as a Windows user, I found that everything worked as I expected. At one point you just jumped into the menu, ran through it selecting things, and hit enter. It was cheeze, I liked it. It seems FUBAR now. -- Samuel J. Greear Developer - GetMegabits, Inc. http://www.itmom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message