From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat May 2 15:39:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA27913 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sat, 2 May 1998 15:39:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA27871 for ; Sat, 2 May 1998 15:39:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA24933; Sat, 2 May 1998 15:39:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, Don Wilde , Joey Garcia , Malartre Subject: Re: A GUI greyscale interface by default / sysinstall II In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 02 May 1998 15:40:40 BST." Date: Sat, 02 May 1998 15:39:23 -0700 Message-ID: <24929.894148763@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Is there any sort of standard for UI toolkits? How appropriate are tk or > VTCL? They're not. They require X to be running and that's right out for a _baseline_ installer since it A) can't count on X being a workable item on all given hardware and B) can't even count on X being a _desired_ item on things like dedicated ISP servers which don't even have VGA cards in them. > Something like SCO's oash sounds quite sensible for this. Is there > anything similar available that we could use? Like I said - you tell me; we've been looking for ages. :) > Yes, I agree with that. Do we want sysinstall II to be more complex? More comprehensive, anyway. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message