Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (818 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <carlos.e.r@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Vincent Untz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Le dimanche 26 octobre 2008, à 13:58 +0100, Carlos E. R. a écrit :
> > And yes, I've been using yast in ncurses mode, now and for years
> > before now. To me, it is quite difficult or cumbersome to use, because:
>
> >  - It doesn't allow mouse clicking: Midnight Commander, Alpine... use
> > the mouse in text mode, in xterms.
>
> Indeed, would be nice.
>
> >  - Tab cycles, but you can't back-cycle by alt-tab.
>
> shift+tab

Ah! Ok, one thing I didn't know. :-)

> >  - To exit a menu I have to type Esc-Esc-Esc-[space|cursor]
>
> (no idea about what this is -- I'm probably not used enough to yast)

Well, I mean that if I try to escape, go away from a menu, Esc alone
does not work, it is not recognized and I have to type it thrice. This
is not yast fault alone, I have seen it elsewhere: in 'mc' I have to
type Esc twice (one less). Or Esc and another key. It works as if Esc
is a "dumb" key, like accents in Spanish or French.

Again, this is not new, has been this way since I came to linux a
decade ago.

> >  - Some options are missing or I can't find them: for instance, I
> > wasn't able to configure my printer.
>
> I can see the yast-printer stuff here. It's in hardware.

Yes, of course it is, but it does not see my printer (an HP on the
network), I have to manually tell it. When I tell it to test the port,
to see if it "sees" the printer, it says nothing: neither failure nor
success. When I tell it to find drivers, it gives the entire
alphabetical printer list, and I get no drop-down manufacturer list to
say "HP".

At this point, I don't know if there is a bug detecting/configuring
printers, or if the ncurses interface is too poor or different for me
to work it out.

Of course, I could add the printer directly in cups, but that's not
what I want: first I allow yast to configure one printer, then I go to
cups and modify.

Therefore, I need the yast graphical interface to test things.

- --
Cheers / Saludos,

                Carlos E. R.
                (from 11.1-factory)
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