CentOS - Feb 2016 - zenity <-- Re: rpm containing gmessage???

On 02/15/2016 04:20 PM, Frank Cox wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 14:57:25 -0500
> ken wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to make the font of some of the text in a zenity-created
>> window larger?  This property doesn't seem to be configurable in
any
>> way. If it matters, I'm using text entry (--entry) mode.
>
>
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18234920/control-the-size-of-the-content-in-a-zenity-window
>
>
Nope.  Not supported in entry mode.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/93918/zenity-and-text-formating

Allegedly there's a hack to add it in.  But this begs the question: why 
didn't the zenity put it in the first place?

Contact zenity devels at 
https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/Zenity?action=show&redirect=Zenity
about this???

On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 17:24:19 -0500
ken wrote:
> Contact zenity devels at 
>
https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/Zenity?action=show&redirect=Zenity
> about this???
Perhaps you're trying to push zenity past what it's intended to be, a
quick method for gathering input and presenting output from bash scripts and the
like.  If you need something fancier than that, you might be further ahead
writing a real program to do the job.

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On 02/15/2016 05:29 PM, Frank Cox wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 17:24:19 -0500 ken wrote:
>
>> Contact zenity devels at
>>
https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/Zenity?action=show&redirect=Zenity
>> about this???
>>
>
> Perhaps you're trying to push zenity past what it's intended to be,
a
> quick method for gathering input and presenting output from bash
> scripts and the like.  If you need something fancier than that, you
> might be further ahead writing a real program to do the job.
>
Five or six days ago I considered coding it myself.  But one of the 
first principles of coding is: 'Don't re-invent the wheel.'

Secondly, it's really not a question of "fancier"; zenity would do
what
I asked (see today's previous posts) if it just eliminated a bug and a 
couple other things we could call 'oversights' (reason for my mentioning
developers' URL).  As is often the case, better documentation would be 
helpful as well.

Thirdly, the above (again, mentioned in previous posts of today) are so 
obvious that I'm sure some future version of zenity will have them 
corrected.  We just have to wait.

4) Ten-fifteen years ago I already wrote essentially a (g)xmessage that 
has worked fine, been rock solid, and looked better.  I could add some 
more functionality to it to get 100% of what I want (what I recently 
thought would be nice to add to it), but unfortunately I don't have time 
for that right now.

E) It would make more sense to join the devels with zenity.  But I don't 
have time for that either unfortunately.

So, yeah, that's a good suggestion.  It's just that my calendar is in 
the way.