[SM-Discuss] ISO installation presentation

David Kowis dkowis at shlrm.org
Tue Aug 5 19:52:52 EDT 2008


flux wrote:
> seth at swoolley.homeip.net (seth at swoolley.homeip.net) wrote [08.08.05 17:14]:
>> Alternative ideas:
>>
>> 1) make the lines output really slowly like an old teletype as if it were the 
>> good old days, slow enough to read as it outputs.
> 
> Ah, the good old days :-D. I'm not sure how many others would actually
> enjoy this like I would though :(.

I would! That'd be so totally awesome!

> 
>> 2) use ansi colors and bold to highlight the prompts or titles
> 
> Have you used/tested the recent installer? We already bold. We weren't
> using color thus far to try and keep it uniform for any users who wanted
> to do the install on a terminal that didn't support ansi colors (and
> possibly keep from garbling their display as well). But bold has been
> there for quite some time now ;).

Colors would be nice.

> 
>> 3) use a pager like less that actually uses terminal pages (when it exits, it 
>> shows you what was there on the screen when it started).
> 
> This would present exactly the same problem. Depending on the option
> flags passed to less, it will either clear the screen on exiting, or not
> clear it, so the same choice would still have to be made.


Typically less doesn't clear it. I don't think clearing it is
acceptable, as users can type "clear" if they desire. I think that fits
with our "non interference" policy.
-- 
David Kowis

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