Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 18:05:57 -0700 From: Eric Melville <eric@FreeBSD.org> To: Brian McGovern <mcgovern@beta.com> Cc: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.4 RC - sysinstall looks funny... Message-ID: <20010816180557.A58189@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200108162336.f7GNa7a01239@spoon.beta.com>; from mcgovern@beta.com on Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 07:36:07PM -0400 References: <200108162336.f7GNa7a01239@spoon.beta.com>
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> I realize that there was work done to sysinstall to standardize on usage > of things like enter, tab, and space. However, the resulting work looks > less polished that what was had previously. > > In particular, the disk partitioning menus, when using a custom install, > aren't always showing the 'X' in the appropriate space. In addition, menu > options that don't have check boxes seem to have them 'ghosted', and the > way the refreshes are being done, you can really see them. It looks, well, > poor :\ Which disk partitioning menus are we talking about here? The only one that I know of that even has a checklist is the one that chooses a disk. I havn't got any machines with multiple disks here, I'll take a look once I get home today. The items that you say are "ghosted" are not really what you think - it's necessary to place the cursor there, to indicate that item is selected, and not the buttons below. Unfortunately, sysinstall makes the cursor and the background the same color, which makes it look at bit odd. It may look better if some colors are changed. As for the refresh, what specifically looks bad? Turning an option on and off looks a bit strange, but that's just what ncurses does when you change a character that's under the cursor. If you're talking about the whole screen, I've added a couple refresh calls in a few places, but they are really necessary due to the additional display changes. I'll see if I can do away with some of them, but I don't think I can. > I also just had an incident when leaving the custom distributions install > screen (ie - bin, compat, etc...) that it jumped back one level too far. Rather > than going to the custom install menu (with options, partitions, etc), it > went all the way back to the type of install I wanted to do. > > I had to select "custom" again, which brought me to the distribution menu > again. It cycled this way 3-4 times before it finally let me back to the > middle layer. Unfortunately this is something that I've seen both before and after the libdialog changes. > I'll have to go back and play with it some more to make sure I'm not smoking > crack, but I think there may be some things we want to improve before we > go -RELEASE with 4.4 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message
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