From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 1 01:02:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA22039 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 01:02:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from mother.sneaker.net.au (akm@mother.sneaker.net.au [203.30.3.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA22034 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 01:02:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from akm@mother.sneaker.net.au) Received: (from akm@localhost) by mother.sneaker.net.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA24304; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 20:11:50 +1100 (EST) From: Andrew Kenneth Milton Message-Id: <199712010911.UAA24304@mother.sneaker.net.au> Subject: Re: Out of Box experience (Was: Re: How is selection made of what goes into CDrom?) To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 20:11:50 +1100 (EST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199712010832.TAA01580@word.smith.net.au> from "Mike Smith" at Dec 1, 97 07:02:24 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk +-----[ Mike Smith ]------------------------------ | | > I have actually used it on a Tk thing I wrote, to see what it looked | > like on a console. It doesn't do too bad a job. There are obviously | > somethings that aren't going to work like pretty logos and iconic | > displays (which are overrated anyway IMHO). | | "It" as in vtcl, or ctk? Ctk. I must be having a bad grammar day. | I think your standards are just a little low | if you think ctk "doesn't do too bad a job". I'm just a simple man, I admire simple things d8) | It's certainly not | possible to write a single interface that works with both ctk and | "real" Tk, unlike with vtcl. | | Been there, tried to do that. 8) Depends on what kind of interface you want. Sysinstall currently shows menus and pops dialog boxes, and that's about the extent of the UI. I'm sure you could do a great job of that using CTK, and it'd look pretty enough under X. At the very least the UI would be consistent. How much do you want it to do? How much should it do? Heh if you wanted to be cute you could 'publish' a sysinstall API and people could make their own shared libraries to give them the GUI of their choice. I'm sure Jordan doesn't need me adding to his workload though d8) -- ,-_|\ SneakerNet | Andrew Milton | GSM: +61(41)6 022 411 / \ P.O. Box 154 | akm@sneaker.net.au | Fax: +61(2) 9746 8233 \_,-._/ N Strathfield +--+----------------------+---+ Ph: +61(2) 9746 8233 v NSW 2137 | Low cost Internet Solutions |