-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkkEbswACgkQU92UU+smfQV6TQCggNigTxgX22NDzUxHrhGFXb3u BXYAn1ijJP4bWvFObMCHZNP/GRwm2qJB =oosP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org