New menu implementation with curses #2506
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Custom menu with curses - collecting feedback
Addresses #2364
This is a draft PR to showcase and to ask for feedback and input :)
Currently archinstall is using
simple-term-menu
for rendering the interactive menu. Although the library does its job, it is also somewhat limited in terms of customization. Information can only be shown from a top to bottom approach and there is no way of utilizing other spaces on the screen to be more flexible.This WIP PR is a step into moving away from the dependency and implementing a "similar" interactive menu. The initial step is to replicate functionality and then to extend and customize it further.
I managed to get the basics up and running to show what the possibilities are:
This example code triggers the new menu