installers (slackpkg, slackpkg+, sbopkg, etc.) using dialog box interface stuck in mid-1900s style?
by dchmelik from LinuxQuestions.org on (#55G5B)
Is dialog (interface) non-updated/orphaned since 1980s? Seems inspired by old DOS installers, which as wasn't much in them, much fit in old monitors' 25 to 60 (1990s) though would've been much nicer with option to fill screen rather than inset box 1/9 screen.
Felt dated by late 1990s; since I started using X terminals (xterms) more, it's an extremely time-consuming, almost painful process. One might page down several in Slackware installation, or through several hundred slackpkg (or slackpkg+) updates, or several thousand SlackBuilds.org (SBo) package (sbopkg) choices. One can see eight program names at once, but at nicely-readable larger-sized text, I'd have maybe 80 lines (and at small usable text, maybe some hundreds.) Honestly, I'm able to see a longer program list on my calculator: dialog box interface's list size is like for (smaller) monitors not just in early 1990s but maybe monitors their dawn in computing.
A friend told me one can edit dialog interface programs so box fills (instead 1/9) screen, but refused to document because was 'too busy "slacking"' (now he maybe gave up programming or much/anything productive.) Is there a way to do so?
I'll try to upload screenshot(s) how ludicrous dialog interface boxes looks on medium (i.e., 4K) monitors... some geometry/graphics professionals whose work I follow have large (i.e., 8K) monitors and (as some work wall-sized) surely are looking into custom/experimental largest (10K, 12K, 16k) if not also having even larger display/video/graphic projector onto walls. Sure, in some years/decades, when I get 8K, I may not want dialog to fill screen rather than taking half horizontally & vertically (still probably not inset 1/9) or I might still want it to, and just more closely watch where the highlighted line is.
Also, it's surrounded by a blue screen, which I often (re)install at night and wanted to stop having the blue light (can cause insomnia.)
Felt dated by late 1990s; since I started using X terminals (xterms) more, it's an extremely time-consuming, almost painful process. One might page down several in Slackware installation, or through several hundred slackpkg (or slackpkg+) updates, or several thousand SlackBuilds.org (SBo) package (sbopkg) choices. One can see eight program names at once, but at nicely-readable larger-sized text, I'd have maybe 80 lines (and at small usable text, maybe some hundreds.) Honestly, I'm able to see a longer program list on my calculator: dialog box interface's list size is like for (smaller) monitors not just in early 1990s but maybe monitors their dawn in computing.
A friend told me one can edit dialog interface programs so box fills (instead 1/9) screen, but refused to document because was 'too busy "slacking"' (now he maybe gave up programming or much/anything productive.) Is there a way to do so?
I'll try to upload screenshot(s) how ludicrous dialog interface boxes looks on medium (i.e., 4K) monitors... some geometry/graphics professionals whose work I follow have large (i.e., 8K) monitors and (as some work wall-sized) surely are looking into custom/experimental largest (10K, 12K, 16k) if not also having even larger display/video/graphic projector onto walls. Sure, in some years/decades, when I get 8K, I may not want dialog to fill screen rather than taking half horizontally & vertically (still probably not inset 1/9) or I might still want it to, and just more closely watch where the highlighted line is.
Also, it's surrounded by a blue screen, which I often (re)install at night and wanted to stop having the blue light (can cause insomnia.)