January 2008 - YaST Development - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[yast-devel] My first ycp dialog :)
by Stephan Kulow 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

Hi! I thought prototyping in ycp is easier than creating mockups in gimp, so I coded http://ktown.kde.org/~coolo/yast7.png - but it looks weired - suggestions are welcome ;) Greetings, Stephan

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[yast-devel] Unification of Fxx keys usage
by Katarina Machalkova 08 Jan '08

08 Jan '08

Hi, as the new version of yast2-ncurses that finally contains status line support has been submitted to abuild today, I'd like to ask you, yast hackers and module maintainers, for a favour. This request would be much more useful as a chapter in yast style guide, but as we have no styleguide, I'm using this e-mail channel. It would be really useful if the function keys for particular actions were more or less constant and did not change from module to module. So please check your modules if at least the following Fxx keys are assigned to these actions (i.e. do not assign them to any other action) F1- Help F3 - Add F4 - Edit/Configure/Change F5 - Delete F8 - Back F9 - Abort/Cancel F10 - Next/Finish/Accept/OK Ncurses navigation help also mentions F2 - Info, F6 - Test, F7 -Expert/Advanced, but this would be imho pretty tight requirements, so try to stick to the ones listed above and use the remaining function keys as you wish. Some cases where these rules are currently broken: include/printer/dialogs-cups.ycp: F4 assigned to 'Delete' (use F5) clients/ldap_browser.ycp: F5 assigned to 'Reload' (use e.g. F6) include/bootloader/routines/dialogs_i386.ycp: F8 assigned to 'Cancel' (use F9) Thanks for keeping ncurses UI well-usable :) B. -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help(a)opensuse.org

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[yast-devel] libyui throwing exceptions
by Martin Vidner 08 Jan '08

08 Jan '08

> URL: http://svn.opensuse.org/viewcvs/yast?rev=43316&view=rev > Log: > - Fixed crash when running text-mode menu as > non-root user (new libyui throws an exception > if SelectionBox entry is nil) Hi, so I learn that the new libyui throws exceptions in certain cases and some of them are not caught, causing yast to abort. I understand that such cases are errors in libyui usage and fixing the individual cases like this one is fine. Still, YaST should not crash. Shouldn't we revert to the old behavior of graceful degradation where the YCP code gets nil and manages to recover? I suppose that it can be done by one catch somewhere in the UI bindings. (The log should say "libyui usage error, please report in bugzilla, search for 'WidgetItemIsNilException' first") -- Martin Vidner, YaST developer http://en.opensuse.org/User:Mvidner Kuracke oddeleni v restauraci je jako fekalni oddeleni v bazenu -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help(a)opensuse.org

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[yast-devel] 11.0 Alpha Yast Installer Font
by Bryen 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

This should probably be mentioned over in Factory, but I thought I'd come here straight to the source. :-) I just downloaded the latest Alpha Boot CD to install on my test machine. I see the new, and beautiful green Installer that Coolo mentioned in a previous post. Only problem I have, as a low-vision person, is that its a bit harder to read. I'm not sure if the font size is the same as it was in the old installer or if it is due to the new background contrast. Also, I tried the installer twice, first in 1024 resolution and then in 800 resolution, and both times, the font size remained apparently the same. But text did get cut off along some edges in the 800x600 resolution. I have not tried just standard text mode yet. But low-vision folks shouldn't have to sacrifice the beauty of the new installer. :-) We just need to find a way to manage font size for the installer. Or is there a way to do that currently, and I'm not aware? -- ---Bryen--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help(a)opensuse.org

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