On Fri, 19 Apr 1996, David L. Johnson wrote: > I would be cautious about even using svgalib to fancy-up the > installation. Slackware does this, and has (or had) to have a plain > tty version as a backup for those that had trouble. In addition, the > fancy installation screen buried error messages, so you (as a novice) > would have no idea when something went wrong.
That depends on how you do things. A well done installation procedure could redirect the standard error (and output) of the invoked programs to an a window in the user interface, so that messages can be read freely by the user. Anyway, I think the main problem with svgalib is, as someone else pointed out, the difficulty to create a nice and comfortable user interface using a simple graphics library as the starting point. That is potentially a very complex task. M. S. ------------ Martin A. Soto J. Profesor Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion Universidad de los Andes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
