I have a crappy little commandline utility that's getting a lot of use from novices, so I figured I'd use xmessage or its moral equivalent to add a trivial GUI to help those who cannot deal with commandlines. All it does it put up a menu of available actions and an ok/cancel button.
The hideous result can be seen here: http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks Depending on the desktop environment, I do one of zenity --title "$title" --text "$text" --list --checklist --column "$col1name" --column "$col2name" --height 400 $args | tr '|' '\012' kdialog --title "$title" --separate-output --checklist "$text" $args xmessage -print -file /tmp/x_showmenu.txt -buttons "Cancel,$args" | sed 's/Cancel//' It was a pain to figure out, it's fragile, and it's not even remotely pleasing to use. It'd be nice if there were some utility xdg-dialog that unified the various xmessage replacements out there, and handled this use case nicely, without going overboard. Not bloody likely, but I thought I'd ask. - Dan _______________________________________________ Desktop_architects mailing list Desktop_architects@lists.linux-foundation.org https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop_architects
