On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 10:24:56AM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Timo wrote: > >What are the proposed semantics of this multitreeselect? > > > >If we imagine something like: > > > >[ ] a > > [ ] a/b > > [ ] a/c > >[ ] b > > [ ] b/a > > > >Would checking "a" automatically also check "a/*"? > >Is it only about UI, meaning "a/*" would be collapsed under "a"? > >Shall it be possible to check "a", but uncheck "a/b"? > > Yes, I'm thinking just about UI here: my plan would be to not have > anything *selectable* at "a" - it would just toggle the display of the > "a/*" subtree in those frontends that can display such a thing.
If we took that approach then it wouldn't work so well for the grub2 case, where "a" would be a whole disk and "a/b" and "a/c" would be individual partitions. (Unless we rephrased the choices to include an explicit "Whole disk" option or something.) -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]