From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 14 21:11:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 558BF14C9C for ; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 21:11:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA51312; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 21:10:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: Adam Strohl Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , Ryan Thompson , Peter Jeremy , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 14 Dec 1999 23:35:56 EST." Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 21:10:48 -0800 Message-ID: <51308.945234648@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > If we follow jkh's outline, making another "front end target" for the > script shouldn't be that hard. You have X, VESA Syscons, and Text > Syscons. > > The script says "ok, prompt user for ", under X it opens a window, > under Text some ASCII dialog, and under VESA a little window. VESA syscons, either using libvgl and an array of crude widgets or something like MGR and its widget set, has long been on the wish-list but I didn't even include it in my summary since it's still very much a pipe-dream. :-) There's actually one mode you forgot, which is what I call "text mode", and that's straight ascii prompts, no CUI-style dialog boxes or anything. Think about text-to-speach devices for the blind or serial consoles attached to really *dumb* terminals. :-) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message