On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 07:51:55PM +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > Hi, > > On 21/10/18 06:05, Brian wrote: > > On Sat 20 Oct 2018 at 07:19:50 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> Had never heard of 'zenity'. I browsed the text of the page. To > >> read it as intended I'll have to use an alternate profile -- it > >> expects "features" I've explicitly disabled. > >> > >> I searched for 'zenity tutorials'. The first few I found > >> encourage further investigation. > > > > I'd stay awy from zenity if I were you. The same advice applies to > > yad. As for dialog - don't go near it. You will be a lot happier. > > Zenity looks pretty ordinary. Lots of output to terminal, chose > random date, saw as follows:
I used zenity to build the GUI for a mini-application (basically a front end for a semi-fixed rsync powered backup). My take? Slow, inflexible, heavy dependencies footprint. After that experience I fell back to use Tcl/Tk for that kind of thing. My users love it. Cheers -- t
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