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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

Den 2014-12-30 05:11, Israel skrev:
> Hi everyone,
> In light of the sheer volume of amazing Puppy tools available, I decided
> to contact the maintainer of gtkdialog.  What is gtkdialog, you may ask??
> 
> gtkdialog is program that you can make a bash script to construct a user
> interface that interacts with scripts.  This user interface can be
> basically ANY thing you want.
> 
> Why would I do this????
> 
> because the Puppy networking tools are based on gtkdialog, as well as a
> number of very lightweight tools.  I also think, that if we can adapt a
> few puppy scripts we can write some sort of script to adapt them for
> us... and possibly adapt most of them ( a bit grandiose thinking.. i
> know).  But this would give us an army of developers to craft this
> operating system to be very full featured with very little effort (in
> lieu of creating a bunch of programs).  We could have an entire desktop
> environment akin to Lubuntu.  And, besides that we could also make some
> very nice looking programs for common tasks that are not good to do with
> Zenity (though you can with dialog I suppose).
> 

Hi Ali and Israel,

Did you ever consider making ToriOS a branch of Puppy Linux?

Wary Puppy, Precise Puppy, Tahrpup, Quirky, Slacko Puppy ... ToriOS
Puppy (or Tori Puppy)?

Best regards
Nio