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dialog vs. zenity

Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2005 3:11 pm
by 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

Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2005 3:25 pm
by atd
Yes, it is installed on our computer

Re: dialog vs. zenity

Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2005 5:06 pm
by mom2pp
gyboth wrote: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? :wink:

yes i have zenity

Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2005 10:50 pm
by 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

Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 8:43 am
by 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 :-P).

gyözö

Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 9:09 am
by mom2pp
i have zenity 2.6.0

Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 11:53 am
by atd
2.8.2

Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 8:20 am
by 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. :)