From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 18 17:50: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.gbch.net (gw.gbch.net [203.24.22.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 27A6837B40E for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 17:49:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 45260 invoked by uid 1001); 19 Sep 2001 10:49:56 +1000 Message-ID: X-Posted-By: GJB-Post 2.21 16-Jun-2001 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 X-Location: Brisbane, Australia; 27.49841S 152.98439E X-URL: http://www.gbch.net/gjb.html X-Image-URL: http://www.gbch.net/gjb/gjb-auug048.gif X-GPG-Fingerprint: EBB2 2A92 A79D 1533 AC00 3C46 5D83 B6FB 4B04 B7D6 X-PGP-Public-Keys: http://www.gbch.net/keys.html Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 10:49:56 +1000 From: Greg Black To: Eric Melville Cc: Bill Swingle , Sheldon Hearn , hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Recent changes to libdialog are weird References: <95560.1000727060@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <20010918152142.A48126@FreeBSD.org> <20010918172757.A97849@dub.net> <20010918174314.A68063@FreeBSD.org> In-reply-to: <20010918174314.A68063@FreeBSD.org> of Tue, 18 Sep 2001 17:43:14 MST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Eric Melville wrote: | > I agree with and like the new behaviour but I think it is still lacking | > in one aspect. When using a mouse to position your cursor it's very | > obvious where that cursor is and what it's pointing to. With lidialog | > it's hard to tell at just a glance where the cursor is because it's only | > a few characters wide even if the "button" it's on is wider, and it's a | > drab gray color. If the cursor were something brighter and unique it | > might make it easier to distinguish as "the cursor" and there for easier | > to understand. Red maybe? | > | > Anyone else think this is a good idea? | | That would be excellent. However, according to jkh there is no easy means | of doing this, which leaves us with the option of changing the grey | background around. What it needs more than anything else is to learn to respond to Ctrl-L to repaint its screen. When something messes up the screen, it's a total nightmare to complete an install the way it is now. And it needs a way to go back step by step through the menus. There are too many ways that you can end up having to completely restart an install if you get tricked by one of the unintuitive keystrokes and go forward a level by mistake. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message