From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19627 invoked by uid 1002); 13 Apr 2003 09:30:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 29439 invoked from network); 13 Apr 2003 09:30:00 -0000 Message-ID: <3E992E19.1010501@omegabyte.com> Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 05:30:01 -0400 From: "Derek J. Belrose" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030408 Minotaur/0.1a X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cedric Veilleux CC: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <200304130523.26770.cedric@neopeak.com> In-Reply-To: <200304130523.26770.cedric@neopeak.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GUI installer X-Archives-Salt: 7cf302db-1d2e-4f07-83f2-a7a1549b1e2b X-Archives-Hash: c32e8526e34b78f7e835a7487e093568 The only real way I can think of is to do some checks on if X is running, and if it is, use a graphical toolkit for X...if not, use a terminal based kit like ncurses. I like this idea. I should download a liveCD to throw some code on and do tests. Is anyone against pyGTK or something like it? pyQT? wxPython? Is anyone against python? :) Cedric Veilleux wrote: >Why not simply use gentoo's livecd? > >The livecd can boot the user into a fully loaded console or X workstation, >with all the tools needed. > >The installer could be an additional tool on the liveCD system.. Anybody knows >a GUI abstration toolkit that can generate either terminal based or X based >interface, depending on what's available at runtime? > >This way the same installer could be used if X is not working or can't be >used. > >In both environment (terminal / X), multitasking would be possible so >experienced users could perform manual tasks while the installer is waiting >for input.. > > >Just my 2 cents, > >Cedric > > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list