> One idea for the desktop shell ;o) : > > some colleagues and I, in the field of UNIX development & support, are > always searching for simple tools, portable, to create graphical > feedback in shell scripts... > > We went looking into tck/tk, perl/tk, xmessage, .... and a lot of > "dialog" tools programmable from the command line, on Linux, Solaris, > HP-UX, ... And as you probably know it's a mess ;o)... > > Beside this we always wondered why the "Open file" dialogs in all > graphical toolkits (gtk, qt, kde, ...) were so different, so far from > the user, .... > > If EFL file dialogs were usable in shell scripts it would be great. > Device handling facility (open usb disk of my E17 desktop, sending a > picture back to my desktop through bluetooth if I had E17 on my > mobile, ...) would be great also ;). > > So designing a good set of very basic "dialogs" with the very focus of > ergonomics in mind should be a central thing in e+evfs+desktop future. > Keeping the efficiency of EFL, portable as it is, fast, beautiful, > simple .... >
Enity in cvs (might need some fixing) allowsy you to pop up dialogs, populate them, get trees etc (like GTK's Zenity) using shell scripts, perl, etc... Give it a try if you're looking for something like that. -- Hisham Mardam Bey http://hisham.cc/ +1-514-713-9312 Codito Ergo Sum (I Code Therefore I Am) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
