Jonathan Dowland wrote: > Perhaps, at least for the freeze deadline, this is a better approach. I > couldn't remember which package we did this for, maybe it was rott; and > zenity > sounds familiar. Perhaps I should switch focus to a PoC of this approach.
It was ROTT, this is the relevant patch: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-games/rott.git/tree/debian/patches/no-files-found-dialog.patch > (P.S.: it occurred to me whilst doing this that we could put hacx in > non-free > post-freeze, and possibly chex too) Yes, good idea! HACX should definitely be suitable for non-free. Not sure about Chex Quest, though, I am not sure if this even comes with a proper license. > If we were already using sdl2, we could have looked at using that for the > dialog. Alas! Yes, native dialog windows will make things a lot easier.

