+1 for ditching Zenity in all cases. It's gnome/gtk3 dependencies have
become monstrous and has very little in the way of new features in
recent "development".

Yad has been described as "zenity on steroids" but does not depend on
a ****load of gnome.

Yad is actually now in Debian Sid. We've been using it for a long time
for GUI stuff that is just not possible with Zenity. No Debian
maintainer volunteered till recently but that version is
gtk3-dependant. However even the latest version builds with gtk2 (much
less overhead), I have done it and it works here in Devuan Jessie. I
would like to see it in Devuan repo.

That said, a "GUI Dialog" doesn't really fit a minimal system like this anyway.

D

On 14 May 2016 at 22:42, KatolaZ <katolaz@???> wrote:
> On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 05:09:34PM -0400, . fsmithred wrote:
>> Zenity is somewhat of a dependency hog. In Refracta, we abandoned it a
>> couple years ago and replaced it with Yad.
>>
>> In devuan beta, zenity wants to pull in another 55mb of packages. In my
>> current refracta-jessie install, it wants to pull in 367mb of packages. Yad
>> pulls in nothing extra in devuan beta. It's not in the stable repo, but it
>> is now in unstable and maybe in testing. Yad also has more features than
>> zenity.
>>
>> repo:
>> http://debs.slavino.sk/
>>
>> current debs:
>> http://debs.slavino.sk/files-testing.php
>>
>> more versions:
>> http://debs.slavino.sk/pool/main/y/yad/
>>
>> -fsr
>>
>
> OK, then I think that zenity will stay out of the minimal live image
> :D
>
> After all, the scope of this minimal image is to have a *minimal*
> working system, for machines with limited resources and for rescue
> purposes.
>
> HND
>
> KatolaZ
>
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