Baptiste Daroussin wrote on 14.03.2013 10:55:
Hi all,
Ilya A. Arkhipov wrote dialog4ports which has just been added into the ports
tree ports-mgmt/dialog4ports, this is intended to be a replacement for dialog(1)
designed specifically for the options, in particular for optionsng.
It uses libdialog (recent version) and extend it with a new widget able to deal
with both normal and radio options in the same window.
I very much like this from the few ports I tried it with for now.
Having UI elements in a config dialog behave like real radio groups is
great, separating them from each other with horizontal lines adds
greatly to readability and usabilty from where I sit.
Being able to specifiy a descriptive text to be displayed in the heading
of radio option groups is a very welcome feature, since that'll give me
a chance to be more concise about what the user will get from the group.
I think 'make showconfig' should learn to display these, also.
Albeit being a rather small change, I quite like the use of a small 'X'
letter for ticked options.
dialog4ports will live forever in ports so that it can easily be updated and get
support for new features on all supported arches at the same time.
It bundles libdialog on FreeBSD versions that doesn't have a recent libdialog in
base (read 8.x)
dialog4ports also support a new feature: it has a help dialog to be able to
print a human readable help text if possible.
That's also very useful. I thought about asking for having long lines
being automatically reflowed to screen width, but this would probably
open a small can of worms. Anyway, help is supposed to give hints, not
to replace documentation, and using fmt(1) on pkg-help before submission
is not exactly rocket science.
Here is a patch to the ports tree that makes it use dialog4ports by default.
What it does is:
When make config is requested and dialog4ports is not installed yet the ports
tree will install dialog4ports first.
New feature for maintainer, if a pkg-help file is found inside the port
directory then dialog will show to the user a help file is available et propose
him to hint F1 or ^E to show the said help file
http://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/d4p.diff
Please test!
Nice work -- much appreciated :)
MfG CoCo
PS: There's a typo in the message asking for the dialog4ports
installation. It reads '... installed to you want ...', but probably
should read '... installed, do you want ...'.
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