From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 3 19:16:15 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A080110656C9 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 2008 19:16:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx23.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFFC88FC22 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 2008 19:16:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 19283 invoked by uid 399); 3 Jul 2008 19:16:11 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO lap.dougb.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 3 Jul 2008 19:16:11 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <486D2579.1080400@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:16:09 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080606) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <784966050807021123l267aa20en39eb513c12c90ad2@mail.gmail.com> <486BFE3B.3040509@gmail.com> <486C0928.8050607@yahoo.fr> <20080703085629.GA1590@intserv.int1.b.intern> <486CEEEF.8030808@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <486CEEEF.8030808@freebsd.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 OpenPGP: id=D5B2F0FB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:16:15 -0000 Tim Kientzle wrote: > I don't think a graphical installer is necessarily > the answer to this. Simply obeying long-established > conventions for keyboard usage (ENTER selects the > thing under the cursor, for instance, instead of > having to TAB to the "OK" button first) would go > a long ways. The version of dialog we have in the system is prehistoric. The newer version is a lot better in the POLA department, and $SOMEONE was working on an update, but I don't know what happened to that effort. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection