Implement missing fbwhiptail features, minimally input, maybe multi selection
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Description
Fbwhiptail was made in a night. It's now used everywhere under Heads, well mostly.
I'm working at color coding heads right now, and reducing noise and console input/output.
To go further, input for text is missing from whiptail (modules/newt) into fbwhiptail (modules/fbwhiptail)
Mutiselection to act as a configuration management as well would be nice to have.
Let's see what can be done?
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
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Research direction
Start by reading the existing implementations in modules/newt and modules/fbwhiptail, focusing on how whiptail handles text input and multi-selection. Define the minimum supported behavior for each feature and verify it in the Heads workflows that use fbwhiptail.
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Assessment
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100