Re: gnome-utils again: Drop gdialog or zenity or merge them!

[Ben FrantzDale <bfrantzdale hmc edu>]

My understanding was that gdialog was a drop-in replacement for dialog.

--Ben

On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 06:13, Christian Neumair wrote:
> Hi there!
> gdialog and zenity have a high grade of similarity:
> Both are meant to create useful dialogs from the command-line. While
> zenity offers a wider range of dialogs (calednar, file-selector and
> question dialog, just to name some of them), gdialog has some more of
> basic dialog flavors, mostly simple boxes (msgbox, textbox, radiolist
> etc.).
> Maybe we can merge both applications to get one which covers more usage
> fields or drop one of it, while the matter to me seems to be more
> target-oriented.
> I'm not sure which syntax is more convinient, that should be figured out
> by those who code scripts / other applications calling zenity and
> gdialog.
> 
> regs,
>  Chris