graphic installation to debian

2005-06-20 Thread Markus Åkerman
hi, i suggest a raphical insallation to debian, one is soon coming ro gentoo. Markus

Re: graphic installation to debian

2005-06-20 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 20 juin 2005 à 14:59 +0300, Markus Åkerman a écrit : i suggest a raphical insallation to debian, one is soon coming ro gentoo. I'm eager to see your patches for bringing this. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'

Re: graphic installation to debian

2005-06-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 02:59:07PM +0300, Markus Åkerman wrote: i suggest a raphical insallation to debian, one is soon coming ro gentoo. The appropriate forum for discussing this is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quite a bit of discussion about exactly how to implement this has already taken place there,

Re: graphic installation to debian

2005-06-20 Thread Brett Parker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Markus Åkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, i suggest a raphical insallation to debian, one is soon coming ro gentoo. But *why*? I see little to no advantage over what we've currently got, fine for a desktop install, but what on earth do you want

Re: graphic installation to debian

2005-06-20 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 02:59:07PM +0300, Markus Åkerman wrote: hi, i suggest a raphical insallation to debian, one is soon coming ro gentoo. This is being worked on, and might happen with etch. Note, however, that it's never a good idea to just go and suggest something to an open source

Re: graphic installation to debian

2005-06-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 02:59:07PM +0300, Markus Åkerman wrote: i suggest a raphical insallation to debian, one is soon coming ro gentoo. What does gentoo show you while it compiles your base system all weekend? WebCollage porn perhaps.. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: graphic installation to debian

2005-06-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 02:29:21PM +0100, Brett Parker wrote: Markus Åkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i suggest a raphical insallation to debian, one is soon coming ro gentoo. But *why*? I see little to no advantage over what we've currently got, fine for a desktop install, but what on

Re: graphic installation to debian

2005-06-20 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Brett Parker wrote: But *why*? Indian languages have conjunct, variable-length characters so it is impossible to display them properly on the console. So some kind of graphical solution is our only choice if we want to support about 1.7 billion people. -- Jaldhar H.

Re: graphic installation to debian

2005-06-20 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Wouter Verhelst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 02:59:07PM +0300, Markus Åkerman wrote: hi, i suggest a raphical insallation to debian, one is soon coming ro gentoo. This is being worked on, and might happen with etch. Note, however, that it's never a good idea

Re: graphic installation to debian

2005-06-20 Thread Brett Parker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 02:29:21PM +0100, Brett Parker wrote: Markus Åkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i suggest a raphical insallation to debian, one is soon coming ro gentoo. But *why*? I see little to

Re: graphic installation to debian

2005-06-20 Thread Brett Parker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jaldhar H. Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Brett Parker wrote: But *why*? Indian languages have conjunct, variable-length characters so it is impossible to display them properly on the console. So some kind of graphical

Re: graphic installation to debian

2005-06-20 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Brett Parker wrote: Ahhh, thanks, didn't realise that. I thought that there were console fonts available that covered it. The one such effort I've seen required a huge and hackish kernel patch and still looked like crap. GTK and Qt on the other hand have a few minor

Re: graphic installation to debian

2005-06-20 Thread Markus Boas
I perfer a installer where have gcc onboard, so you can compile the modules where not included. Booting afterwards the compiled kernel in a uml system and install from this debian. That is a smoth thing with today have only gentoo. Ryven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: graphic installation to debian

2005-06-20 Thread Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Wouter Verhelst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Note, however, that it's never a good idea to just go and suggest something to an open source project; actually doing the work is far more likely to achieve something. And explaining why one thinks that a graphical

Re: graphic installation to debian

2005-06-20 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Helmut Wollmersdorfer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): A GUI can have better usability. E.g. some beginners don't know, how to mark an item in a list for selection in the current installer. O.k., Right. This has been reported quite often (actually more in tasksel than the installer itself,

Re: graphic installation to debian

2005-06-20 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Otavio Salvador ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Maybe we should change debconf to display a message when we hve multiselect templates explain how the user should do to mark an iten and how to continue. This has been discussed, yep. Just like a possible Help button, but we're quite stuck with

Re: graphic installation to debian

2005-06-20 Thread Otavio Salvador
Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quoting Helmut Wollmersdorfer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): A GUI can have better usability. E.g. some beginners don't know, how to mark an item in a list for selection in the current installer. O.k., Right. This has been reported quite often (actually