writing simple visual front ends to shell scripts for ubuntu

Dennis Kaarsemaker dennis at kaarsemaker.net
Tue Sep 13 07:48:31 UTC 2005


Op di, 13-09-2005 te 13:56 +1000, schreef Peter Garrett:
> On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 17:19:38 +0200
> Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis at kaarsemaker.net> wrote:
> 
> > On ma, 2005-09-12 at 10:31 +1000, Serg Belokamen wrote:
> > > You may want to look into "dialog", just type "dialog --help" on
> > > comand line.
> > 
> > Zenity is the replacement for dialog.
> > -- 
> > Dennis K.
> 
> Actually, if I understand correctly, dialog is an ncurses based method
> that works within a terminal or tty, whereas Zenity supplies X-based 
> gtk2 dialogues etc .  Xdialog can be used with dialog, but is gtk 
> 1.2 . The Xdialog documentation goes into the details of using 
> Xdialog/dialog interchangeably, depending on whether X is running or 
> not.

You're right, I misinterpreted dialog for gdialog. Zenity is the
replacement for gdialog :)
-- 
Dennis K.
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