From owner-freebsd-qa Thu Dec 16 12:56: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46D47156AE; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 12:56:04 -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 MAA63287; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 12:55:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: "Brian J. McGovern" Cc: jkh@freebsd.org, freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysinstall in 3.2-19991215-STABLE... In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 15 Dec 1999 15:07:23 EST." <199912152007.PAA75368@spoon.beta.com> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 12:55:43 -0800 Message-ID: <63283.945377743@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > - Sig 11 was generated while selecting Linux emulation after already > having installed it as a package. I don't know if its one affecting > the other, or whether picking the Linux emulator off the Startup menu > will always cause a sig 11 (I'll do more testing tonight). Very odd, but I'll certainly look into this. Odd because nothing has been changed in this area of code. > - Use of Return and Space bar appears inconsistent and > counter-intuituive.In the "old" version, space would select, or move > you down a level, ENTER would exit and move up a level. The new method > is a nightmare mix. Hmmm, really? Much of what I did was an attempt to *homogenize* the menu behavior. It was quite inconsistent before and I even fixed a bug in libdialog which prevented spaces from working in certain circumstances. Can you be more specific about when and where it transitions from being reasonable to being yuck? > - Linux_glide (the package) still generates an error message. This > screws up the underlying (Post Configuration) menu screen. This > causes problems after the packages are installed, as the menu is now > difficult to use. Urk, really? How odd - it's not supposed to have any access at all to VTY0! Again, can you give me a reproduction sequence? Just a simple matter of installing it off the package menu? > - As an aside to the above, the package-install screen goes back to > the post-install screen when you select "INSTALL". Messages about > package installs are now tiled OVER the post configuration window (used > to be a blank screen). I can add a screen clear here, no problem. > - Menus do not consistently have an "EXIT" option to move upwards. This Actually, they're more consistent now in that respect. Many items with SELECTION_RETURNS set (which means that any selection leaves the menu) had Exit items and those were essentially redundant. Likewise Exit items in checklist or radiolist menus - not very useful. If you have specific examples of stuff that's hosed, please let me know though. > - Highlighting of first character in menus is inconsistent. This makes > a number of menus look ugly (this is cosmetic). Actually, it's much more consistent now. We had duplicate accelerators for just about everything before and accelerators weren't even useful as a consequence. Now the long menus use accelerators to get to the first entry of each alphabet-sorted grouping. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message