22 Mar
2016
22 Mar
'16
7:49 a.m.
On 2016/03/22 12:22 AM, Russell Brown wrote:
Quoth Michele Calgaro.....
Thanks for the explanation. Since Slavek has already ported this to R14.0.x, we
could as well add it as a standalone
application. I will discuss with him first ;-)
Cheers
Michele
<snip>
Ta for the debian build hints. This one "dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc"
worked with the addition of a -b.
by the way Russell, is there any change between
konsole and klt that is worth considering adding to Konsole?
AFAIR (it was some years back that I hacked it together) most of the
changes were to take stuff out (shell access, multiple tabs etc) for a
turnkey system. About the only addition was a writable status line on
the bottom and 80/132 column flipping with some auto-resizing of the
font if 132 columns at the current font won't fit on the current
display.
Our legacy stuff (some 3,000+ programs so a quick rewrite isn't going to
happen quickly!) was written using ncurses for a VT100 style terminals
(actually Wyse 120s if anyone remembers them). It doesn't play well
with the screen being resized (difficult to do on a VT100!), is fussy
about fonts etc etc; hence KLT.
However, If someone wants a more kiosked konsole they're welcome to it.
The only 'gotcha' that I know of is that it's hard wired to run
"/usr/local/bin/menu" when it starts but you can call it with "-e
/bin/sh" or hack the code :-)