I am not against using Java. I know that Java is great and have started learning Java (Also, I have made small bug fixes in Solaris Installer GUI) But, because of Java, has the installer slowed down......that was the thinking behind that suggestion. As Dave pointed out, other stuffs are also consuming time.......patchadd/patchrm is very slow! So, we have to look at the portions that are consuming time and check if anything can be reduced or tweaked for performance.
As for the single scrollable page, given the number of questions we have, the single page will become very long! So, having a single window with tabs can be used to avoid this. And we can have labels to each tab, which can be viewed from the main tab itself. Also, there can be a separate bar, showing how much is completed and how much is remaining. Regards, Narendra On 9/1/06, Justin Zygmont <jzygmont at solarflow.net> wrote: > > On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Alan DuBoff wrote: > > > On Thursday 31 August 2006 12:48 pm, Dave Miner wrote: > >> You need a toolkit with which to implement a GUI. For better or worse, > >> Java represents the richest environment for doing so on Solaris, in my > >> opinion. It isn't a significant factor in the performance of the > >> install, though, beyond the overhead that we have in setting it up to > >> run on the current miniroot, which is completely a result of space > >> limitations on the first CD combined with the architecture of the > >> current install. > > > > Dave, > > > > I'd just like to comment that I agree for the most part. I find that a > lot of > > folks tend to bash Java for performance, but it's gotten much better > over the > > past few years. > > > > I don't know if it makes more sense over other similar technologies, > python > > for instance (I look at python as being a similar technology;-), but it > works > > and does a good job, IMO. It seems easier for us to extend what we have, > > since much of it does use Java today. > > > > I think Java is one of the richest programming environments available > today, > > there doesn't seem a good reason that it shouldn't be used. > > > 400MB for the installer must be one of the tradeoffs? > > _______________________________________________ > install-discuss mailing list > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss > -- Warm Regards, ??????? ??????.???.??? (S.S.Narendra Kumar) Visit my blogs at: http://ssnarendrakumar.blogspot.com/ http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/ssnkumar ___ ___ __ _ / __/ / __/ / | / / _\ \ _ \ \ / /| |/ / \___/ \___/ /_/ |__/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/install-discuss/attachments/20060901/59fe8a43/attachment.html>
