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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 09:18:56AM +0000, Harish Narayanan wrote:
> 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.

Cool!

There's also dialog (curses-based) and kdialog which is the equivalent
of zenity for KDE.

With more than two options (zenity + text), I guess it could be a good
idea to have a single while loop and logic and just set the two
command strings (select 1, 2, 3 + file dialog) somewhere above.

We could also have a list of useful information pop up during
installation like

  "Did you know that a graphical version of this installer is
   available for users that have zenity or kdialog installed?"

  "Did you know that you can join the FEniCS Team on Launchpad?"

  "Did you know that FEniCS is tested nightly on 20 platforms?"

  "Did you know that FEniCS often changes it interface just to
   spite its many users?"

--
Anders

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