Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 15:17:58 +0100 From: Marco Steinbach <coco@executive-computing.de> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [CFT] New dialog for ports Message-ID: <5145D096.1010403@executive-computing.de> In-Reply-To: <20130314095529.GH53963@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> References: <20130314095529.GH53963@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>
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Baptiste Daroussin wrote on 14.03.2013 10:55: > Hi all, > > Ilya A. Arkhipov wrote dialog4ports which has just been added into the ports > tree ports-mgmt/dialog4ports, this is intended to be a replacement for dialog(1) > designed specifically for the options, in particular for optionsng. > > It uses libdialog (recent version) and extend it with a new widget able to deal > with both normal and radio options in the same window. I very much like this from the few ports I tried it with for now. Having UI elements in a config dialog behave like real radio groups is great, separating them from each other with horizontal lines adds greatly to readability and usabilty from where I sit. Being able to specifiy a descriptive text to be displayed in the heading of radio option groups is a very welcome feature, since that'll give me a chance to be more concise about what the user will get from the group. I think 'make showconfig' should learn to display these, also. Albeit being a rather small change, I quite like the use of a small 'X' letter for ticked options. > dialog4ports will live forever in ports so that it can easily be updated and get > support for new features on all supported arches at the same time. > > It bundles libdialog on FreeBSD versions that doesn't have a recent libdialog in > base (read 8.x) > > dialog4ports also support a new feature: it has a help dialog to be able to > print a human readable help text if possible. That's also very useful. I thought about asking for having long lines being automatically reflowed to screen width, but this would probably open a small can of worms. Anyway, help is supposed to give hints, not to replace documentation, and using fmt(1) on pkg-help before submission is not exactly rocket science. > Here is a patch to the ports tree that makes it use dialog4ports by default. > What it does is: > When make config is requested and dialog4ports is not installed yet the ports > tree will install dialog4ports first. > > New feature for maintainer, if a pkg-help file is found inside the port > directory then dialog will show to the user a help file is available et propose > him to hint F1 or ^E to show the said help file > > http://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/d4p.diff > > Please test! Nice work -- much appreciated :) MfG CoCo PS: There's a typo in the message asking for the dialog4ports installation. It reads '... installed to you want ...', but probably should read '... installed, do you want ...'.
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