On 04/21/2015 01:13 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote: > Den 2015-04-21 18:41, Israel skrev: >> On 04/21/2015 09:03 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: >>> Den 2015-04-21 04:07, Israel skrev: >>>>>> .. >>> Hi all toriosadores, >>> >>> I need some feedback now. There is an updated version of zMktbl, the GUI >>> tarball maker, which uses dialog to select the source partition >>> (actually re-using a program part from the OBI. >>> >>> I am also looking into making a new version, which uses zenity to select >>> the source partition. I think there are advantages and draw-backs of >>> both versions. >>> >>> 1 - Which one do you prefer - the dialog version or the zenity version? >>> >>> 2 - If you prefer the zenity version, should we limit the selection of >>> partitions to ext partitions in tarball maker mode? (For obvious reasons >>> it should not be limited in installer mode, because we might want to >>> re-use a Windows partition.) >>> >>> Best regards >>> Nio >>> >> Hi Nio, >> I preferr the Zenity version, as it arranges the items more coherently >> (as you know). >> If of course the Dialog version can mimic this as well then both would >> be just fine, and it might be good to use a dialog version for OBI >> (unless you are intending to use zenity for OBI... but that is a huge >> project), and you do have a console-only version using dialog. But the >> zenity discussion for OBI is a long an hard process... and not for >> ToriOS 1.0 :) >> >> So, my answer is BOTH. The zenity version fits better with zmktbl, and >> the dialog version with OBI. you could add something in, like >> >> if [ "$3" == "zmktbl" ] >> then >> use_zenity=true >> fi >> >> and down around line 322(ish) >> have something like >> >> if [ "$use_zenity" == true ] >> then >> ans=$(zenity #whatever#) >> else >> ans=$(dialog #whatever#) >> fi >> > Thanks for the feedback Israel :-) > > *Now let us hope that someone else will also reply* If not, I'm prepared > to go along your suggested path, 'both'. > > What about Q2: If you prefer the zenity version, should we limit the > selection of partitions to ext partitions in tarball maker mode? And in > that case, should we include some other linux filesystem? > > Best regards > Nio Hi Nio, can we not write to the Windows partition? I don't fully understand why we would *not* want to write to it. If it is a separate /dev/sdX it should be fine to write to, but we cannot write to the /dev/sdX we are copying. That is the only real limitation I see. But if you have really good reasoning that I am missing (I dislike using windows... so I rarely ever do it unless I have to update BIOS or defrag, etc..)
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