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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
> 

Thanks for the feedback Israel :-)

*Now let us hope that someone else will also reply* If not, I'm prepared
to go along your suggested path, 'both'.

What about Q2: If you prefer the zenity version, should we limit the
selection of partitions to ext partitions in tarball maker mode? And in
that case, should we include some other linux filesystem?

Best regards
Nio