Bug 161053

Summary:	bsdinstall(8): network setup dialog is hard to navigate
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	Ben Kaduk <kaduk>
Component:	bin	Assignee:	Alfonso S. Siciliano <asiciliano>
Status:	Closed Overcome By Events
Severity:	Affects Only Me	CC:	asiciliano
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	install
Version:	Unspecified
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Ben Kaduk 2011-09-27 02:50:05 UTC

Per my mail to -current of 16 September 2011, I must use the arrow keys to navigate between the IP address, netmask, and default router fields -- tab is insufficient.  I wrote:
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In most of the installer, the new dialog is reasonable, with space
select/deselecting and enter activating.  But the behavior in the network
configuration and resolver dialogs is different -- it seems that I have to
use the up/down arrows to move between the IP address, netmask, and default
router fields; enter on any of them still performs the 'ok' action, even
though 'ok' is not selected when any of those three fields are selected. I
think there are several ways in which this situation might be improved -- it
might be that one of 'ok' and 'cancel' is always selected, or tab might move
between the three entry fields as well as ok/cancel, or enter on one field
might move to the next.
(I didn't do anything with IPv6, so I don't know if similar issues are
present there.)
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Comment 1 Eitan Adler freebsd_committer

2011-10-06 05:57:42 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-sysinstall


fix synopsys and assign

Comment 2 Eitan Adler freebsd_committer

2017-12-31 08:00:39 UTC

For bugs matching the following criteria:

Status: In Progress Changed: (is less than) 2014-06-01

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Comment 3 Alfonso S. Siciliano freebsd_committer

2023-02-22 14:44:19 UTC

(In reply to Ben Kaduk from comment #0)

Thank you for the report and your suggestions. These features have been implemented in "forms" since version 0.3 of bsddialog. Currently available in CURRENT 14 (bsdddialog v. 0.4).

Properly:

> one of 'ok' and 'cancel' is always selected

Done.

> or tab might move between the three entry fields as well as ok/cancel

Done.

> or enter on one field might move to the next

Enter selects the current "always selected" ok or cancel buttons to make the behavior consistent with the first hint.
Related note, others have preferred this behavior as well, anyway it can be disabled by the --switch-buttons option.