On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 02:09:37 -0800 Dan Kegel wrote: > 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.
There's Xdialog. Is that too simplistic for what you are doing? I only use it to remind me to take a work break every N minutes. --- ~Randy _______________________________________________ Desktop_architects mailing list Desktop_architects@lists.linux-foundation.org https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop_architects
