From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9588 invoked from network); 23 Jan 2004 17:13:59 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (128.193.0.39) by eagle.gentoo.oregonstate.edu with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 23 Jan 2004 17:13:59 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([128.193.0.34] helo=eagle.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1Ak4sZ-0003LL-4N for arch-gentoo-desktop-research@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 17:13:59 +0000 Received: (qmail 28516 invoked by uid 50004); 23 Jan 2004 17:13:56 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-desktop-research-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail Reply-To: gentoo-desktop-research@lists.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-desktop-research@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 32645 invoked from network); 23 Jan 2004 17:13:55 +0000 To: gentoo-desktop-research@lists.gentoo.org References: <200401200954.58818.pauldv@gentoo.org> <1074790970.1942.6.camel@localhost> <200401222145.23118.pauldv@gentoo.org> <40101891.3050107@chartertn.net> <1074816425.27013.1.camel@montu> <1074873463.18854.20.camel@rivendell> From: dams@idm.fr Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 18:18:09 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1074873463.18854.20.camel@rivendell> (foser@gentoo.org's message of "Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:57:44 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop-research] Installer X-Archives-Salt: 7ca64d44-a971-4139-abe3-903bb747fe88 X-Archives-Hash: 194e3c80ac2d9a5663ba6107a2ebe773 foser said: > On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 01:07, Tiemo Kieft wrote: > > > 3. Gtk2: I am thinking that this may not be the best interface to use. > > > How will this fair with those putting gentoo on very slow/old machines. > > > Also for those doing an install through ssh would not be able to benifit > > > from this. Maybe curses would be the way to go? There are already many > > > tools that are already made for curses(menuconfig, ufed, net-setup). Or > > > heck maybe there could be support for both. > > > > This actually is one of the requirements for the installer as well as > > the config tools. It was discussed in the desktop-research meeting. We > > really want to support both. > > I think it's a pretty silly idea to support multiple backends. Afaic > it's about a GUI installer, so ncurses isn't really what we are after. > You always will get compared to other installers which aren't curses > anymore. Can you give me example of installer that aren't ncurses anymore? redhat, mandrake, debian, slackware have all ncurses/newt option > The people installing over SSH aren't the new users a GUI > installer is targeted at anyway. > > As far as the choice for a widget set, gtk2 seems logical to me. It may > be allegedly slow on older systems, but we're talking about 3 buttons on > a screen here. And if the installer is considered slow, well what's > gonna happen when someone does a GRP install of stable GNOME or KDE. > That's gonna be real slow desktop-ing. agreed on that. gtk2 or qt or whatever, just need to choose. I prefere gtk2 because of the language binding possibilities, but it's only my opinion -- dams -- gentoo-desktop-research@gentoo.org mailing list