dialog vs. zenity

[gyboth]

i just discovered a dialog program that uses gtk but is as simple as dialog (the program used to make the bygfoot-update dialogs). it's called zenity.

of course zenity looks classier than dialog (see image) but the question is, is it as widely available as dialog?

so here's my question for all of you: is zenity installed on your current system? 'cause if the answer is YES for 80-90% of the people, i don't see why we couldn't switch to zenity in the update script.

on my system it was installed (mom2pp, you can check it simply by typing 'zenity' in a terminal window and see whether 'bash: zenity: command not found' comes or some zenity error text).

gyözö

[atd]

Yes, it is installed on our computer

[mom2pp]

mom2pp, you can check it simply by typing 'zenity' in a terminal window and see whether 'bash: zenity: command not found' comes or some zenity error text

thanks
how did you know i was going to ask how to find out?

yes i have zenity

[vector]

yep its on debian ubuntu

mind you I havent used dialog front end for months..its all done thru a script now
http://mec-symonds.eng.monash.edu.au/cg ... #GetUpdate

[gyboth]

unfortunately zenity seems bugged. it is impossible in my version (2.6.2) to select a folder. this has been fixed in the latest versions, but i don't think we can rely on the average Bygfoot user to have zenity 2.10 installed (even the Bygfoot developer doesn't have it, after all). what version do you people have (call 'zenity --about')?

i think we're going to stick with dialog for a while (although zenity looks a lot better ).

gyözö

[mom2pp]

i have zenity 2.6.0

[atd]

2.8.2

[scristian]

Yes
Zenity it's installed in my system.

btw, now I am playing bygfoot 1.9.0 and it's addicted.

Thanks for your hard work guys.