Re: Zenity hard-code freeze break

["Lucas Rocha" <lucasr at mundo gmail com>]

Hi Vincent,

> > I'd like to do very little fix on the "separator" list dialog option.
> > Just to add the G_OPTION_FLAG_NOALIAS flag to avoid the alias
> > "list-separator". Here's the patch:
>
> >From the doc:
>
> "This option should only be used in situations where aliasing is
> necessary to model some legacy commandline interface. It is not safe to
> use this option, unless all option groups are under your direct
> control."
>
> >From zenity help output:
>
>   --help-gtk                     Show GTK+ Options
>
> You don't have direct control over this one...

Just to make things clear: separator is an option that's being used in
more than one dialog. There's already other groups are using the
NO_ALIAS flag with no problem. The point here is that I forgot to add
the flag in the list dialog group.

> Also, two questions:
>
>  + what is documented in the help? separator or list-separator?

"--separator" is documented, not "--list-separator".

>  + what string was used in previous versions? It's important to keep
>    compatibility.

There's no backward compatibility break here. I'm sure.

p eace

--lucasr