Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jul 3 19:16:15 UTC 2008


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

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