Re: [orca-list] [Testers wanted before the official release] Slint64-4.2.1 release candidate is accessible.

[Didier Spaier <didier slint fr>]

Hello,

(follow-up from my previous answer)

Le 18/10/2017 à 16:26, Peter Vágner a écrit :
> As Dave pointed out when the setup wizard shows list of services,
> checkboxes are emulated in a way that unchecked item is prepended with ( )
> - just a space inside parentheses and checked item is prepended with (*) -
> a star punctuation inside parentheses. This star is not read by default
> with espeakup, so it's why we haven't discovered it.
> Perhaps changing the star to capital X would be a more noticeable and still
> common choice here.

I just looked at how to do that. Actually the 'dialog' application is used
and the star seems to be a non configurable default when using the
--check-list box option. So I'm afraid changing  it to capital X is not
easily doable, short of patching 'dialog'.  

> I managed to exit the setup not gracefully. If you wish to reproduce that,
> try doing the following:
> - Run setup
> - Choose the target partion
> - Formatting does not matter here
> - Continue with source selection and configure the setup to autodetect the
> install disk in your CD rom drive.
> * When it asks if you are ready to install selected packages answer no.
> - Now from the initial setup menu, choose configure your linux system.
> The setup will display a lot of errors exiting with no ability to save what
> has just been configured.

I previously answered you that a not installed system can't be configured,
somehow saying that the user should no do what you did.

On second thought you are right: this should not happen at all.

So I have added a test at the beginning of the CONFIGURE case:
if the first package that should be installed isn't, then a
message informs the user that the system can't be configured yet.

So, thanks for your remark and sorry for having overlooked it at first.

Greetings,

Didier