Package: debconf
Severity: wishlist
Could you include some support for graphics in the GNOME interface?
like that when adding this tag to the templates file:
Image: foo.png
the specified file is displayed in a ___location debconf thinks is adequate to
fit with
the text. jpeg and png should be supported formats (not GIFs please)
If the image is too big for the user's resolution, just don't paste it.
It's responsability of
developers using that feature to make sure it fits or to resize the image.
The image file should be installed by dh_installdebconf (i already filed a
bug against it)
Regards,
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/* efdtt.c Author: Charles M. Hannum <[email protected]>
*/
/* Length: 434 bytes (excluding unnecessary newlines)
*/
/* Usage is: cat title-key scrambled.vob | efdtt >clear.vob
*/
/* title-key can be read from the DVD by css-auth. (see livid.org)
*/
#define m(i)(x[i]^s[i+84])<<
unsigned char x[5],y,s[2048];main(n){for(read(0,x,5);read(0,s,n=2048);write(1,s
,n))if(s[y=s[13]%8+20]/16%4==1){int i=m(1)17^256+m(0)8,k=m(2)0,j=m(4)17^m(3)9^k
*2-k%8^8,a=0,c=26;for(s[y]-=16;--c;j*=2)a=a*2^i&1,i=i/2^j&1<<24;for(j=127;++j<n
;c=c>y)c+=y=i^i/8^i>>4^i>>12,i=i>>8^y<<17,a^=a>>14,y=a^a*8^a<<6,a=a>>8^y<<9,k=s
[j],k="7Wo~'G_\216"[k&7]+2^"cr3sfw6v;*k+>/n."[k>>4]*2^k*257/8,s[j]=k^(k&k*2&34)
*6^c+~y;}}
Subject: Re: Bug#122520: including support for graphic files
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 11:35:59 -0500
Robert Millan wrote:
> Could you include some support for graphics in the GNOME interface?
> like that when adding this tag to the templates file:
>
> Image: foo.png
>
> the specified file is displayed in a ___location debconf thinks is adequate to
> fit with
> the text.
Well that's an interesting idea. How though do you propose the image
gets on the system when debconf is preconfiguring a package (that is,
before it is installed)?
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Subject: Re: Bug#122520: including support for graphic files
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 17:05:20 +0100
On Wed, 05 Dec 2001 17:35:59 Joey Hess wrote:
>
> Well that's an interesting idea. How though do you propose the image
> gets on the system when debconf is preconfiguring a package (that is,
> before it is installed)?
well, as you're pointing it, those images should be in the same place that
every file that is required in preconfiguration is stored: control.tar.gz
> Installing images into the DEBIAN directory and thus the control.tar.gz
> is too ugly and unweildly to be workable, IMHO.
This is the place where they can be useful. They cover exactly the same
function as the templates file, but just the media type is different.
AFAIK there can be no other way to do it, please rethink about it. Also it
will only be present when the maintainer wants it to be. Consider them
as an 'ugly' or 'unweild' thing the maintainer can be blamed for, but i
think
you should let him free to do it the way he wants.
Shall you implement this feature, and find a package using it where the
image doesn't fit well or is unnecessary, then file bug reports against
that
package. But do you agree that this would look pretty well on some
packages?
Regards
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/* efdtt.c Author: Charles M. Hannum <[email protected]>
*/
/* Length: 434 bytes (excluding unnecessary newlines)
*/
/* Usage is: cat title-key scrambled.vob | efdtt >clear.vob
*/
/* title-key can be read from the DVD by css-auth. (see livid.org)
*/
#define m(i)(x[i]^s[i+84])<<
unsigned char x[5],y,s[2048];main(n){for(read(0,x,5);read(0,s,n=2048);write(1,s
,n))if(s[y=s[13]%8+20]/16%4==1){int i=m(1)17^256+m(0)8,k=m(2)0,j=m(4)17^m(3)9^k
*2-k%8^8,a=0,c=26;for(s[y]-=16;--c;j*=2)a=a*2^i&1,i=i/2^j&1<<24;for(j=127;++j<n
;c=c>y)c+=y=i^i/8^i>>4^i>>12,i=i>>8^y<<17,a^=a>>14,y=a^a*8^a<<6,a=a>>8^y<<9,k=s
[j],k="7Wo~'G_\216"[k&7]+2^"cr3sfw6v;*k+>/n."[k>>4]*2^k*257/8,s[j]=k^(k&k*2&34)
*6^c+~y;}}
Subject: Re: Bug#122520: including support for graphic files
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 12:58:49 -0500
Robert Millan wrote:
> Shall you implement this feature, and find a package using it where the
> image doesn't fit well or is unnecessary, then file bug reports against
> that
> package. But do you agree that this would look pretty well on some
> packages?
Frenkly, I don't really see the point.
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Subject: Re: Bug#122520: including support for graphic files
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 20:04:32 +0100
On Wed, 05 Dec 2001 18:58:49 Joey Hess wrote:
>
> Frenkly, I don't really see the point.
For example, i'm maintainer of Plex86. That package relies heavily on
debconf, so I could get this nice logo from upstream:
http://www.plex86.org/images/logo_small.gif
convert it to png and reduce it, then put it on the 7 debconf templates
plex86 has.
users appreciate a good-looking template. creating a GNOME interface was
a good idea, and it can be improved by adding some graphical support.
also, its functionality could be improved in the future by supporting the
load
of images that are preinstalled in the system.
a package with a collection of 'standard' images, say debconf-images, could
then
be created. for example, there could be a 'standard' warning logo that all
debconf
templates that display some kind of warning message (plex86 does) use, so
that
they share a common look & feel.
well, i can say no more.. anyway this won't be very important until next
release, when
IIRC Debian will make extensive use of the graphical interface from the
beggining.
Regards,
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Robert Millan Debian GNU/Hurd user
zeratul2 wanadoo es http://getyouriso.dyndns.org/
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GPG ID C8D6942C
237F 8688 C2E5 BC64 E152 97B4 FB28 D41B C8D6 942C
----------------------------------------------------
Join us in civil disobedience and distribute DeCSS!!
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/* efdtt.c Author: Charles M. Hannum <[email protected]>
*/
/* Length: 434 bytes (excluding unnecessary newlines)
*/
/* Usage is: cat title-key scrambled.vob | efdtt >clear.vob
*/
/* title-key can be read from the DVD by css-auth. (see livid.org)
*/
#define m(i)(x[i]^s[i+84])<<
unsigned char x[5],y,s[2048];main(n){for(read(0,x,5);read(0,s,n=2048);write(1,s
,n))if(s[y=s[13]%8+20]/16%4==1){int i=m(1)17^256+m(0)8,k=m(2)0,j=m(4)17^m(3)9^k
*2-k%8^8,a=0,c=26;for(s[y]-=16;--c;j*=2)a=a*2^i&1,i=i/2^j&1<<24;for(j=127;++j<n
;c=c>y)c+=y=i^i/8^i>>4^i>>12,i=i>>8^y<<17,a^=a>>14,y=a^a*8^a<<6,a=a>>8^y<<9,k=s
[j],k="7Wo~'G_\216"[k&7]+2^"cr3sfw6v;*k+>/n."[k>>4]*2^k*257/8,s[j]=k^(k&k*2&34)
*6^c+~y;}}
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