From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 2 10:54:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA03205 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 10:54:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA03200 Tue, 2 Jan 1996 10:54:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA12261; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 11:44:57 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199601021844.LAA12261@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: syscons driver To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty Jr.) Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 11:44:57 -0700 (MST) Cc: sos@FreeBSD.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, jdli@linux.csie.nctu.edu.tw, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199512291939.LAA01052@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty Jr." at Dec 29, 95 11:39:22 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > We cannot assume that Joe Random User has X capable HW, and much less > > that he knows what it is he has. > > We *should* assume that Joe out on the Net has X capable HW . > If we have problems with *supported* X hardware then we should addressed > them and not say that we should not be emphasizing X capable apps. We should assume that Joe User has X capable hardware if he has a card capable of graphics at all, from CGA/MGS on up. The problem then is getting an X that can run on it. I think that the install itself, which is sort of off topic for this particular part of the thread (which is apps oriented), should use an API that allows interchanging GUI/TUI components underlying some basic abstractions, like pick lists, etc. And the first option is to GUI or TUI, and is presented as text. This resolves the issues without introducing unnecessary complexity or cutting out the test-only people. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.