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Subject:    [openbox] Pipe-menu refresh
From:       A.Thyssen () griffith ! edu ! au (Anthony Thyssen)
Date:       2013-02-25 1:24:27
Message-ID: 20130225112427.4c1bd188 () chimera ! itc ! griffith ! edu ! au
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On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 02:26:15 -0300
Mat?as Gast?n Mdq <matiasbatero.mdq at gmail.com> wrote:
| Hi,
| 
| Yes, Yad is a great tool, more than Zenity, but it's very limitated.
| 
| I use Gtkdialog, it is very powerfull-lightweight utility and simple to use.
| You can do very complex gtk guis. It's specially optimized and it is highly
| oriented to be used in bash.
| 
| You can see the project:
| http://code.google.com/p/gtkdialog/
| 
| Dependencies: gtk2, libglade.
| 
| It would be nice to see a similar utility but in gtk3. Something like
| glade2script but more lightweight.
| I like gtk2, but gtk3 have more future.
| 
| Regards!
| Mat?as Gast?n.

gtkdialog seems to be more like a scripting language for launching sub-shell
programs, basic on user actions in a GUI.

In other words a wrapper around a shell scripting.

It is however an interesting idea, especially if the various launched
sub-shells can pass information between each other.

It has a huge learning curve to use properly!

If you are getting this complex you are probably better of using a widget
library such as perl-TK where everything is done in the top level process.

Still it is a nice thing to have in your GUI toolbox.


  Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer )    <A.Thyssen at griffith.edu.au>
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