On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 10:03:42PM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > I see you need to know a lot of keys. I think that is non-intuitive; > a full screen interface should have pulldown menus (perhaps with > shortcuts), a command line interface has switches.
Well, actually pull down menus are very seldom used with curses applications and not very good. A short menu like tin or mutt/elm offers is IMHO enough, and I think it is already there... You can of course use some Function Keys in Addition to letter Keys, and habe the Space-Key work on the current selection (cycle packet state), but IMHO aptitude is a great advance over the dselect. Especially because of the new package feature and the preview feature. The last functio i am missing is a "install this" function, which avods to upgrade others (i use "apt-get install" for that). Greetings Bernd