Dialogs in Debian

Steve Holmes steve at holmesgrown.com
Thu Oct 16 10:24:47 EDT 2008


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I'm curious; I've been seeing dialogs in the various scripts and
programs that debian uses for configurations and installations and the
like.  Does anyone know what curses based dialog system is being used?
I can't seem to figure that out.  Some other distros, like Slackware,
use 'dialog' but from what I see Debian doesn't use that one.  I think
they are using something burried down in debconf but I haven't been
able to dig that out.  I'm wondering because I would like to use it
for my program development purposes.  I find the dialogs that are
generated to be quite accessible with Speakup and cursor tracking
seems to be quite good.  With dialog on the other hand, I have some
considerable problems with cursor placement while using speakup.

Any further ideas?  Thanks a lot.
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