Hello,

Firstly, sorry if my english is not very good sometimes...
Second, I'm trying to make a GUI Installer for Fw.

I find in TODO list 0.9 :

"5) graphical installer

when we were at 0.1 i thought a graphical installer for 1.0 is a
musthave. nowadays i'm not that sure. if we want it, how do we want it?
having a so-called installer (which in fact isn't a real installer) like
Ubuntu has? (fwlive+a pygtk or pyqt script) or do we want a real
graphical installer like Fedora does?

i think a graphical installer is more like the later, but that's more
complicated and i'm not too motivated to code it :S"

Always the same question : how do you want it ? :) 

In the first case, it's "easy" to make (using Gtk).

In the second case, to avoid X system, we need to use linux framebuffer (I
don't know any other solution). So, can I use directfb in this case? 
In fact, I started to work with it.

But today, maybe I found another solution. Can we make a "fedora like"
installer whom can be used from fwlive too? I remember that GTK have a
directfb backend. So, I compile GTK (with cairo and pango) without X
support to make a test with a basic GTK program coded in C. Program work
with X11 GTK library and seems to work correctly out of an X environnement
when it's linked with directfb GTK library.

Both solutions are fine for me (directfb or gtk), but what do you think
about? ;)

Thank you very much
Elentir

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