On Fri 30 Aug 2019 at 13:11:52 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 05:31:50PM +0100, Paul Sutton wrote: > > What tool is used to produce the graphical interface for programs such > > as tasksel > > A program named dialog, or whiptail which is basically "dialog lite". > Both of these are in packages with the same name as the program. > > ii dialog 1.3-20190211-1 amd64 Displays user-friendly dialog > box > ii whiptail 0.52.20-8 amd64 Displays user-friendly dialog > box
I've never used whiptail but dialog is a brilliant utility. For devising menus and implementing them it is unbeatable. It has many, many uses beyond tasksel. yad and zenity are GUI alternatives. -- Brian
