Den 2015-04-21 20:21, Israel skrev: > 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..)
Hi again, In installer mode, yes we are happy to write to a Windows partition (overwriting Windows). But in tarball making mode, I don't think we find a suitable system source unless there is a linux filesystem. Best regards Nio -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~torios Post to : torios@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~torios More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
