Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 21:10:48 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: Adam Strohl <adams@digitalspark.net> Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, Ryan Thompson <freebsd@sasknow.com>, Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle? Message-ID: <51308.945234648@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Dec 1999 23:35:56 EST." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912142330590.364-100000@nightfall.digitalspark.net>
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> 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 <blah>", 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
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