[Debconf-devel] Bug#501767: Bug#501767: [patch] hide cancel and close in the gnome frontend

[Joey Hess]

Michael Vogt wrote:
> I would like to hide the cacncel button and the close button in the
> gnome frontend by default. The rational is that users often click it
> when they don't have a clue what to answer. 
> 
> But because "cancel" is mapped to "exit 1" this makes the maintainer
> script that calls debconf fail. This is especially a problem during
> dist-upgrades where failures in maintainer scripts are bad.

I think the button should optimally prompt to make sure the user wants
to abort.

The dialog frontend lacks a way to cancel, and I typically find that
annoying, since sometimes you really do want to effectively ctrl-c the
whole upgrade.

-- 
see shy jo
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