Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 13:40:18 +0100 (BST) From: Ben Cohen <bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk> To: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Don Wilde <dwilde1@ibm.net>, Joey Garcia <bear@pacificnet.net>, Malartre <malartre@aei.ca> Subject: Re: A GUI greyscale interface by default Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980501174142.238B-100000@bjc23.trin.cam.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <3549CFB0.53BCC628@ibm.net>
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Hi! > Sh*t, I even _use_ GUI's myself (sometimes). I just don't want to get > STUCK with using them to accomplish things. That's all. We aleady have > /stand/sysinstall, it would be really good to extend that to include > printers and ISP-connect ppp (as opposed to network link). > > For anything else, let the GUI gather user info, then feed a script (or > compiled program, whichever) with it. That way all of us are happy! That sounds quite sensible---it doesn't have to cover everything but should cover most of the useful basic things. [Assuming that the -current /stand/sysinstall is the same as the 2.2.5 version] I am not personally keen on the dialog interface---I prefer the interface in the sysadmsh utility under SCO UNIX V r4 (the one before the current Open Server, though I'm not sure what the exact name was). This seemed to cover everything including kernel config (which, admittedly is different for FreeBSD), users, devices, packages and printers, etc. It was also customisable to a certain extent. (It has since been replaced in OpenServer by scoadmin, which isn't quite as nice but means that the same program is available in X using SCO's TCL.) The source for /stand/sysinstall says that the next version will be a complete rewrite. What is/will the interface be like for the new version? Ben. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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