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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

Den 2015-04-21 04:07, Israel skrev:
> Hi Nio,
> Ok, I added my fixes to your new files.
> 
>>> Hi Israel,
>>>
>>> Nice to work side by side with the same code, but with different things.
>>>
>>> Here is new newest contribution.
>>>
>>> 1 - improved dialog behaviour (within the well-known files). I have
>>> added automatic unmounting and warning output and I have improved the
>>> colours and, I hope, made things easier to understand with some other
>>> improvements of the text.
>>>
>>> Maybe this improvement is big enough to motivate an update/upgrade of
>>> ToriOS. Maybe we should wait for the next item:
> I am sure we will have to update it soon.  I need to play with the
> update-manager to get things working correctly there... :)
>>> 2 - lsblker
>>>
>>> The file lsblker contains the starter for a new way to create the menu
>>> of select-part2, to read the list output into an array and that way
>>> 'tabulate' the list for improved readability with the proportional font
>>> that comes with zenity --list
>>>
>>> Look at it and run it, and I think you see what I mean.
>>>
>>> I'll try to read every second (i.e. even) item into the array for easy
>>> parsing to the zenity list (the values, not the keys in the  key="value"
>>> output format).
> I like this, I knew you would have a good solid idea on how to do this.
> This is much like my sketch, but you understand lsblk much better and
> also how OBI works.... though I have come to understand it (and the
> underlying tools you use) much better than at first.
> 
> I am excited to see what comes of all this!!  I am definitely impressed
> with the improvement to zmktbl!!
>>> Best regards
>>> Nio

Hi all toriosadores,

I need some feedback now. There is an updated version of zMktbl, the GUI
tarball maker, which uses dialog to select the source partition
(actually re-using a program part from the OBI.

I am also looking into making a new version, which uses zenity to select
the source partition. I think there are advantages and draw-backs of
both versions.

1 - Which one do you prefer - the dialog version or the zenity version?

2 - If you prefer the zenity version, should we limit the selection of
partitions to ext partitions in tarball maker mode? (For obvious reasons
it should not be limited in installer mode, because we might want to
re-use a Windows partition.)

Best regards
Nio

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