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[Harish Narayanan <harish.mlists@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/12/2009 09:10, Anders Logg wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 02:02:18AM +0000, Harish Narayanan wrote:
>> On 09/12/2009 23:09, Anders Logg wrote:
>>> On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 11:00:56PM +0100, Anders Logg wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 07:24:06PM +0000, Harish Narayanan wrote:
>>>>> On 09/12/2009 19:21, Anders Logg wrote:
>>>>>> Might I suggest some nice colors in the menu or possibly some nice
>>>>>> ASCII-animation of a phoenix bird flapping its wings?
>>>>>
>>>>> Might I request a patch? :)
>>>>>
>>>>> Harish
>>>>
>>>> I'll work on it.
>>>
>>> Here's a bundle. There's no animation but it does add support for a
>>> graphical installer when available.
>>>
>>> It uses Zenity which is a simple tool for displaying options and file
>>> selection dialogs from the command line.
>>>
>>> Seems to work for me.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> I will apply the patch, but I can't test it (no GNOME).
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> I've attached a couple of screenshots so you can see how it looks.

It looks good!

The last I saw zenity (years ago), all it could do is simple GUI
notification from the command line (and soon crash). This looks so much
more impressive. I'll see if there is something analogous for other
platforms.

Harish