Hi all, a while ago Faraco brought fltk-dialog <https://github.com/darealshinji/fltk-dialog/> to my attention, I have recently been investigating it, and the capabilities of it, and also built a preliminary package (which works fine). Here is my report:
The upsides: Seemingly complete compatibility with the other popular dialogs such as zenity/yad/dialog/Xdialog/etc.. but with a argument syntax similar to zenity/yad The downsides: It is a bit large (1.8 MiB) since it statically links a slightly modified version of a more recent FLTK (1.3.4) It is possible to rework the program to remake things to avoid patching FLTK and using a static library (by making extended classes rather than patching the code) AFAIK, and perhaps get upstream FLTK devs on board and include the changes. Currently it supports indicator icons via using GTK libs, but not the entire library, and I have suggested using code similar to mine for the indicators. Basically I think we could convert our tools (mkusb/OBI/etc..) to use fltk-dialog and save a lot of space if we can completely migrate away from GTK, though the main issue here will be PCManFM. It would be really great to have a fully non GTK DE that rivals the GTK LXDE and can easily run on older hardware in very strong and clean way. This will require some serious thought, and as Ali and Nio discussed earlier it might be time to look into using di (Debian Installer) to install ToriOS, rather than OBI, since things have changed. We could (potentially) make an FLTK front end, though this is a rather imposing idea since most Debian docs about their internal tools are rather lame (such as apt-pkg). Either way Debian turned 25 today (16 Aug) so that is exciting :D I'd appreciate feedback about these ideas -- Regards
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