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tahaselim
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Having a rox button to view the files is a good idea,
but the tabs are what I have problems with.
there Must be a way of defining a default tab, recording the tab number as the default while mounting a partition would solve the issue.
But that's easier said than done 
Taha Selim
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Dougal
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| Posted: Thu 12 Jul 2007, 15:03 Post subject:
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| tahaselim wrote: | | there Must be a way of defining a default tab, recording the tab number as the default while mounting a partition would solve the issue. |
I'll have another look at the gtkdialog examples, but as far as I know there's no option of a default tab.
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WhoDo
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| Posted: Thu 12 Jul 2007, 20:07 Post subject:
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| Dougal wrote: | | As for the Rox button, Pmount used to not have that, instead opening Rox automatically when the partition was mounted. This seems to have changed at some stage... |
Yep. I requested that change way back, so that you didn't have to umount/mount to get a Rox window open in the event you closed it while the partition was still mounted. This was considered a usability feature for Window$ refugees who had enough trouble understanding the whole mount/umount process, much less finding the mounted partition contents in Rox.
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Dougal
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| Posted: Fri 13 Jul 2007, 06:30 Post subject:
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| WhoDo wrote: | | I requested that change way back, so that you didn't have to umount/mount to get a Rox window open in the event you closed it while the partition was still mounted. This was considered a usability feature for Window$ refugees who had enough trouble understanding the whole mount/umount process, much less finding the mounted partition contents in Rox. |
But that was one stage back, when there was a Rob button and the window opened automatically, wasn't it?
The problem now is that rox only opens from that button.
I looked again and there doesn't seem to be a way of selecting a tab in gtkdialog.
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tahaselim
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| Posted: Fri 13 Jul 2007, 07:51 Post subject:
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| Dougal wrote: |
But that was one stage back, when there was a Rob button and the window opened automatically, wasn't it?
The problem now is that rox only opens from that button.
I looked again and there doesn't seem to be a way of selecting a tab in gtkdialog. |
Dougal what do you think if we gather every secondary storage device in the first tab and show HD's in the second or third tab.
First tab will include : Cdrom-Dvd, and USB (maybe Floppy, I doubt if somebody still uses one)
Second Tab : HDD drives
etc.
I know this time mounting HDD's will be a problem but its more likely that a user would like to mount a CD or a flash disk and view the contents than mounting HDD every now and then.
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zigbert
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| Posted: Fri 13 Jul 2007, 09:45 Post subject:
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It is possible to select which tab to show, with changing the content of the left (first) tab. You have to make a dynamic gtkdialog-code, where each tab-code is a variable or textfile. Then do a loop before export gtkdialog, which define which device (gtkdialog-code) should be loaded first.
| Code: | DEVICES="hda hdc sda" #or whatever
#...
echo -e "\c" > /tmp/pmount-gtkdialog
for I in $DEVICES; do
echo "<vbox>...gtkdialog-code...</vbox>" >> /tmp/pmount-gtkdialog
done
GTK_CODE=`cat /tmp/pmount-gtkdialog` |
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zigbert
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| Posted: Fri 13 Jul 2007, 16:01 Post subject:
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Some more flesh on the bone.
Get the active device first in the devicelist, and then the earlier described loop:
| Code: | #! /bin/bash
ACTIVE_DEVICE="sda" #or whatever
DEVICES=`probedisk | cut -d "|" -f 1 | cut -d "/" -f 3 | sed -e "s/$ACTIVE_DEVICE//g"`
#...
echo -e "\c" > /tmp/pmount-tabs
echo -e "\c" > /tmp/pmount-tabs_code
for I in `echo "$ACTIVE_DEVICE $DEVICES"`; do
echo "|$I" >> /tmp/pmount-tabs
echo "<vbox>$I</vbox>" >> /tmp/pmount-tabs_code
done
TABS=`cat /tmp/pmount-tabs`
TABS_CODE=`cat /tmp/pmount-tabs_code`
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echo "$TABS | Code: | | sda| hdc| hda| sdb| scd0| |
echo "$TABS_CODE": | Code: | <vbox>sda</vbox>
<vbox>hdc</vbox>
<vbox>hda</vbox>
<vbox>sdb</vbox>
<vbox>scd0</vbox> |
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sunburnt
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| Posted: Fri 13 Jul 2007, 17:15 Post subject:
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This is just a comment on the state of "GTKdialog".
From the creator of GTKdialog:
| Quote: | | GTKdialog is a very bad program that I wrote. |
I agree... Unfortunately it's the only small Linux GUI builder I've seen.
Most of the other GUI builder "languages" I've seen are rather heavy weight,
or are part of a complete programming language (many fit this profile).
It'd be really nice to have a replacement for GTKdialog that's "consistant".
It'd be able to position the control objects on the window.
And it'd have a common syntax: "VisualBasic" style.
So command syntax would look like this:
list.var = FILES
list.in = /path/file
list.width = 200
list.height = 300
button.label = Do SomeThing
button.icon = pix.png
button.action = ./appExe (function) . . .
button.refresh = $FILES
I know I'm just pipe dreaming here, but we can dream...
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WhoDo
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| Posted: Fri 13 Jul 2007, 20:06 Post subject:
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| Dougal wrote: | But that was one stage back, when there was a Rob button and the window opened automatically, wasn't it?
The problem now is that rox only opens from that button. |
Ah, I see. A Rox window opens on mounting, and the Rox button is only there after mounting, in case you closed that window and needed to reopen it without mounting/umounting. That is still the case in the untabbed Pmount on my 2.16 system. The change you mention must have happened after that.
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BarryK
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| Posted: Fri 13 Jul 2007, 20:38 Post subject:
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Gtkdialog does allow a default radiobutton, but I don't know about anything else.
I'm not happy with a tabbed interface that, after mounting a partition, then hides the partition under another tab. That makes extra work, have to click the tab to bring it back into view.
The reason I changed it so that ROX does not immediately open, is someone requested it should be that way for consistency with MUT. I don't recall who or when, I just had the note in my notebook. And I agreed that MUT and Pmount should behave in a consistent fashion.
As to rearranging the order of tabs so that the last-used one is at the left,
I don't like that. It's moving in the direction of Microsoft's auto-adjusting menus, which I hate. The brain works by recognising patterns.
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