Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 16:16:49 +0100 (MET) From: sos@freebsd.org To: jfieber@indiana.edu (John Fieber) Cc: phk@critter.tfs.com, sos@freebsd.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, cshenton@apollo.hq.nasa.gov, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thoughts on the install and on Red Hat Linux. Message-ID: <199511271516.QAA16649@ra.dkuug.dk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951127084443.7751C-100000@fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu> from "John Fieber" at Nov 27, 95 08:47:12 am
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In reply to John Fieber who wrote:
>
> On Mon, 27 Nov 1995, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
> > Considering the problems, I belive that an X11-based installation is
> > >not< the thing we should do before we can do a !X11-based installation
> > to some level of satisfaction.
>
> Yes! Listen to the man!
Exactly my words...
What I propose is a "modern" version of curses/dialog that uses a
simple graphic interface with a simple designer interface...
It doesn't require all the space/setup/whatever that X does, but could
easily be made to run under X later...
What I was after was that it should be damnd easy to design/implement
the user interface, if thats not the case we won't get any graphical
utilities (how many do we have now ????)
I do see we have a problem with text only machinery, for that we
propbly stilll should use curses/dialog.
If we can get a definition done on the function interface, then I'm
ready to change it, if we get real serious we would design it so
that curses/dialog <> "my baby" would have the same interface on
the functioncall level, then we could have both textonly/graphical
solutions...
I'll stop dreaming now....
> (This is not to say that we shouldn't keep an X based install in the back
> of our minds though. We don't want to make design decisions that
> eliminate future options.)
Sure, that was why I was ready to do a X backend to my baby project...
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