[Koha-devel] Installer request: no screen clearing

[paul POULAIN]

Paul Gear wrote:

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>(Somebody tell me if this info should be going to a better place...)
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no, it's the right place, i think.

>The practice of clearing the screen in the installer is not the best
>idea, IMO.  As you can see, i've had a lot of error messages, and these
>might get missed by the installer clearing the screen.  Additionally, i
>can't scroll back in my terminal to see the full install output.  I'd
>rather see the installer just write to the screen as normal, with some
>sort of colour (as it does at present) or separator to show that a new
>task is being started.
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I agree. The behaviour at beginning was NOT cleaning the screen. Then we 
added the clear (don't know remember when)
I think we could roll back. MJR, what do you think, as installer hacker 
(kudos for this new title :-D ) ?

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Paul POULAIN
Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres
responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)