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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

Den 2015-04-21 18:41, Israel skrev:
> On 04/21/2015 09:03 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
>> Den 2015-04-21 04:07, Israel skrev:
>>>>> ..
>> 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
>>
> Hi Nio,
> I preferr the Zenity version, as it arranges the items more coherently
> (as you know).
> If of course the Dialog version can mimic this as well then both would
> be just fine, and it might be good to use a dialog version for OBI
> (unless you are intending to use zenity for OBI... but that is a huge
> project), and you do have a console-only version using dialog.  But the
> zenity discussion for OBI is a long an hard process... and not for
> ToriOS 1.0 :)
> 
> So, my answer is BOTH.  The zenity version fits better with zmktbl, and
> the dialog version with OBI.  you could add something in, like
> 
> if [ "$3" == "zmktbl" ]
> then
> use_zenity=true
> fi
> 
> and down around line 322(ish)
> have something like
> 
> if  [ "$use_zenity" == true ]
> then
> ans=$(zenity #whatever#)
> else
> ans=$(dialog #whatever#)
> fi
>