Maybe I haven't run the correct yum commands or looked in the right repo, but I haven't found a utility called 'gmessage'. Anyone know where to find it?
On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 13:42:39 -0500 ken wrote:
Maybe I haven't run the correct yum commands or looked in the right repo, but I haven't found a utility called 'gmessage'. Anyone know where to find it?
gmessage has been more-or-less superseded by zenity.
On 02/11/2016 01:48 PM, Frank Cox wrote:
On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 13:42:39 -0500 ken wrote:
Maybe I haven't run the correct yum commands or looked in the right repo, but I haven't found a utility called 'gmessage'. Anyone know where to find it?
gmessage has been more-or-less superseded by zenity.
That's nutz. From docs I've seen, gmessage is way more flexible and featured.
On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 18:55:16 -0500 ken wrote:
gmessage has been more-or-less superseded by zenity.
That's nutz. From docs I've seen, gmessage is way more flexible and featured.
It doesn't appear that way to me, but what do I know. I just use zenity for my own bash scripts and whatnot.
Anyway, just for you I have just created a Centos 7 rpm of the latest GTK3 based version of that program and posted it on my website.
http://www.melvilletheatre.com/articles/el7/index.html
Enjoy.
On 02/11/2016 07:43 PM, Frank Cox wrote:
On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 18:55:16 -0500 ken wrote:
gmessage has been more-or-less superseded by zenity.
That's nutz. From docs I've seen, gmessage is way more flexible and featured.
It doesn't appear that way to me, but what do I know. I just use zenity for my own bash scripts and whatnot.
Anyway, just for you I have just created a Centos 7 rpm of the latest GTK3 based version of that program and posted it on my website.
http://www.melvilletheatre.com/articles/el7/index.html
Enjoy.
Thanks so much, Frank. That was really nice of you to do. But I was looking for 'gmessage', not 'gxmessage'. I tried out 'gxmessage' before and, you're right, it isn't as featured or visually appealing as zenity. A week or so ago, prior to posting about this, when I searched after 'gmessage' I'd found a webpage on it showing it to be a completely different animal from 'gxmessage' and a *much* improved version of it too, allowing one to combine many different widgets into one window. But I wasn't able to find any package, executables, or even source code for it. So, after looking at other options, including the one you graciously provided, I've settled for using zenity. It doesn't do everything I was looking for my app to do, and it has one outright non-performer, but expediency makes it viable... enough.
Heck, maybe I'm missing a couple things in zenity which someone here hasn't:
Is there a way to make the font of some of the text in a zenity-created window larger? This property doesn't seem to be configurable in any way. If it matters, I'm using text entry (--entry) mode.
Is there a way to customize the zenity-created window's background color? (Same mode.)
Every other gui app I open a window for in gnome (for a long time) creates a corresponding button in the bottom bar, even if the user opens a sub-window from a main gui app (e.g., open "Address Book" in Thunderbird or "Show All Bookmarks" in Firefox). But pop a zenity-created window and there's no corresponding button created in the bottom bar for it. I'd think there shouldn't be any extra effort required for this conventional (could we say "default"?) behavior, but is there?
Any help with any one (or more) of these three issues is much appreciated.
On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 14:57:25 -0500 ken wrote:
Is there a way to make the font of some of the text in a zenity-created window larger? This property doesn't seem to be configurable in any way. If it matters, I'm using text entry (--entry) mode.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18234920/control-the-size-of-the-content-...
On 02/15/2016 04:20 PM, Frank Cox wrote:
On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 14:57:25 -0500 ken wrote:
Is there a way to make the font of some of the text in a zenity-created window larger? This property doesn't seem to be configurable in any way. If it matters, I'm using text entry (--entry) mode.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18234920/control-the-size-of-the-content-...
Nope. Not supported in entry mode.
http://askubuntu.com/questions/93918/zenity-and-text-formating
Allegedly there's a hack to add it in. But this begs the question: why didn't the zenity put it in the first place?
Contact zenity devels at https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/Zenity?action=show&redirect=... about this???
On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 17:24:19 -0500 ken wrote:
Contact zenity devels at https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/Zenity?action=show&redirect=... about this???
Perhaps you're trying to push zenity past what it's intended to be, a quick method for gathering input and presenting output from bash scripts and the like. If you need something fancier than that, you might be further ahead writing a real program to do the job.
On 02/15/2016 05:29 PM, Frank Cox wrote:
On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 17:24:19 -0500 ken wrote:
Contact zenity devels at https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/Zenity?action=show&redirect=... about this???
Perhaps you're trying to push zenity past what it's intended to be, a quick method for gathering input and presenting output from bash scripts and the like. If you need something fancier than that, you might be further ahead writing a real program to do the job.
Five or six days ago I considered coding it myself. But one of the first principles of coding is: 'Don't re-invent the wheel.'
Secondly, it's really not a question of "fancier"; zenity would do what I asked (see today's previous posts) if it just eliminated a bug and a couple other things we could call 'oversights' (reason for my mentioning developers' URL). As is often the case, better documentation would be helpful as well.
Thirdly, the above (again, mentioned in previous posts of today) are so obvious that I'm sure some future version of zenity will have them corrected. We just have to wait.
4) Ten-fifteen years ago I already wrote essentially a (g)xmessage that has worked fine, been rock solid, and looked better. I could add some more functionality to it to get 100% of what I want (what I recently thought would be nice to add to it), but unfortunately I don't have time for that right now.
E) It would make more sense to join the devels with zenity. But I don't have time for that either unfortunately.
So, yeah, that's a good suggestion. It's just that my calendar is in the way.
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