RE: 2.4 Module List - zenity

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

So, it doesn't look like I'm going to persuade people that Nautilus scripts
are an overly niche feature that shouldn't be in GNOME itself.

But, Glynn, are you prepared to at least rename zenity or it's executable to
something less cryptic? e.g. "gnome-shell-dialogs" or something more snappy.
At the moment, I think it will be
a) Hard for people to know that they can use dialogs in their scripts.
b) Hard for people to understand scripts that use dialogs.

Murray Cumming
murrayc usa net
www.murrayc.com 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cumming Murray (COMNEON Linz) 
> Sent: Freitag, 28. März 2003 10:48
> To: glynn foster sun com
> Cc: gnome-hackers gnome org; desktop-devel-list gnome org
> Subject: RE: 2.4 Module List - zenity
> 
> 
> > From: Glynn Foster [mailto:glynn foster sun com] 
> > >From the help docs - 
> > 
> http://cvs.gnome.org/bonsai/cvsblame.cgi?file=zenity%2Fhelp%2F
> C/zenity.xml&r
> ev=&root=/cvs/gnome
> 
> OK, then we are talking about scripts like this:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> if zenity --calendar --dialog-title="Calendar selection" 
> --text="Select a
> date from below" --day=18 --month=1 --year=2003
> then echo $?
> else echo "No date selected"
> 
> 
> And, though I think that a script is a lousy customization 
> user-interface
> anyway, I do think that it could be made slightly easier by 
> calling the
> executable something more obviously gnome-like or gtk-like or 
> gui-like.
> 
> It's borderline, but I think this is user interface, so we 
> should try not to
> be too obscure.
> 
> Murray Cumming
> murrayc usa net
> www.murrayc.com 
> 
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