source: archive/gnome/zenity-new.xml

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  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY zenity-download-http "&gnome-download-http;/zenity/&gnome-minor-42;/zenity-&zenity-version;.tar.xz">
  <!ENTITY zenity-download-ftp  "&gnome-download-ftp;/zenity/&gnome-minor-42;/zenity-&zenity-version;.tar.xz">
  <!ENTITY zenity-md5sum        "876ce3ab0304ad7591736238ad97795a">
  <!ENTITY zenity-size          "2.9 MB">
  <!ENTITY zenity-buildsize     "15 MB">
  <!ENTITY zenity-time          "0.1 SBU">
]>

<sect1 id="zenity" xreflabel="Zenity-&zenity-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="zenity.html"?>


  <title>Zenity-&zenity-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="zenity">
    <primary sortas="a-Zenity">Zenity</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to Zenity</title>

    <para>
      <application>Zenity</application> is a rewrite of
      <application>gdialog</application>, the <application>GNOME</application>
      port of <application>dialog</application> which allows you to display
      <application>GTK+</application> dialog boxes from the command line and
      shell scripts.
    </para>

    &lfs112_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&zenity-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&zenity-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &zenity-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &zenity-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated disk space required: &zenity-buildsize;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated build time: &zenity-time;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Zenity Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <xref linkend="gtk3"/> and
      <xref linkend="itstool"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      <xref linkend="libnotify"/> and
      <xref linkend="libxslt"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="webkitgtk"/>
    </para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
      <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/zenity"/>
    </para>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Zenity</title>

    <para>
      First, adjust Zenity to properly use <xref linkend="webkitgtk" role="nodep"/>
      if it is present:
    </para>

<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i 's/webkit2gtk-4.0/webkit2gtk-4.1/' meson.build</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      Install <application>Zenity</application> by running the following
      commands:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>mkdir build &amp;&amp;
cd build    &amp;&amp;

meson --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release -Dlibnotify=true .. &amp;&amp;
ninja</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      This package does not come with a test suite.
    </para>

    <para>
      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>ninja install</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          gdialog and zenity
        </seg>
        <seg>
          None
        </seg>
        <seg>
          /usr/share/help/*/zenity and
          /usr/share/zenity
        </seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="gdialog">
        <term><command>gdialog</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a <application>Perl</application> wrapper script which
            can be used with legacy scripts
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="zenity gdialog">
            <primary sortas="b-gdialog">gdialog</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="zenity-prog">
        <term><command>zenity</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a program that will display <application>GTK+</application>
            dialogs, and return the user's input
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="zenity zenity-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-zenity">zenity</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>