The entire summary of this topic can be found on this page: http://en.opensuse.org/YaST_Workshop_Prague_2007_Day_1/Handle_graphical_and_... which is a joint work of Jirka Suchomel, Lukas Ocilka and me.
As you can tell from my last emal, I completely lost the control-c/control-v game. Its probably due to a mix of lack of sleep and trying to do 5 things at the same time. Its here now in a complete non-duplicate and non-non-linear way. Sorry. Hi, all Posting here,to let the other thread die. I see the survey result is more complete now, heh. I saw it first in the opensuse wiki rss, so it was really a secret page leaking almost as soon as it was posted. Good to hear yall dont want to drop the ncurses interface, as I like and use it quite often. The survey is very neat. Its pretty unique feature among the linux distros (dpkg-reconfigure really doesnt count). Its well structured, and its explicit in their options (except for some obscure advanced buttons heh), opposing to command line interface (which has the features implicit), people dont know what to expect of the command, or worse, they dont know the command exist, while in yast its in a menu, its organized. It seems that having a separate treatment to ncurses and qt GUI was raised to address the concern that it would be hard to keep both with the same backend, while the Qt would a tendency to get more eye candy, while the ncurses wouldnt be able to follow. Well, I think separate is fine, people using the ncurses usually are more linux savvy, and wont care much about it being a bit more spartan than the real thing. The other issue I mentioned is that its easy to tell newbie admins to do this or that, or even to people that arent that familiar with linux, but are with tools of other distributions how can they get their way administering a suse server. The other thing that sometimes annoys me using it is that there are some navigation glitches. Like in sw_single ncurses you need to rpess esc twice to leave some menus, or you tab and it freezes for half a second. Im not sure what causes that. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help@opensuse.org