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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

Den 2015-04-21 20:21, Israel skrev:
> On 04/21/2015 01:13 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
>> 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
> Hi Nio,
> can we not write to the Windows partition?  I don't fully understand why
> we would *not* want to write to it.  If it is a separate /dev/sdX it
> should be fine to write to, but we cannot write to the /dev/sdX we are
> copying.  That is the only real limitation I see.  But if you have
> really good reasoning that I am missing (I dislike using windows... so I
> rarely ever do it unless I have to update BIOS or defrag, etc..)


Hi again,

In installer mode, yes we are happy to write to a Windows partition
(overwriting Windows). But in tarball making mode, I don't think we find
a suitable system source unless there is a linux filesystem.

Best regards
Nio