From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 14 00:50:14 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 792A21065670 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:50:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from motoom@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr19.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr19.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.39]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16A388FC12 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:50:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pasta.gandhi.xs4all.nl (gandhi.xs4all.nl [83.161.213.238]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp-vbr19.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n9E0cPtq056323; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:38:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from motoom@xs4all.nl) From: Michiel Overtoom To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:38:07 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200910140238.07174.motoom@xs4all.nl> X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:38:06 +0000 Subject: Re: sysinstall colours X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:50:14 -0000 On Saturday 10 October 2009 01:59:32 Randi Harper wrote: > All the problems with sysinstall, and your idea is to > change the color? [...] Fancy colors seems to me like a wrong focus of attention too... but maybe it would be nice to be able to run sysinstall in monochrome mode, for maximum contrast? Is this possible already? Just plain gray text on black background, and inverse for the selection bar, would be useful for those that have trouble reading yellow text on a lightgray background. Anyway, it's great to see that sysinstall gets some attention and useful fixes. What sometimes bothers me a bit while using sysinstall is the long sequence of Yes/No questions at a certain moment ('do you want NFS server? do you want NFS client? do you want anonymous FTP? do you want bridging? etc...). A more logical user interface seems a list of configurable options with their current settings, where you can 'point and click' with a selection bar to toggle Yes/No. Greetings, -- "The ability of the OSS process to collect and harness the collective IQ of thousands of individuals across the Internet is simply amazing." - Vinod Valloppillil http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/halloween4.html