Re: Include kommander for GUI frontends

On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 04:35:43AM -0600, probono wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I suggest the inclusion of kommander, the easy grahical KDE dialogs engine (sid package kommander).
> http://quanta.sourceforge.net/main2.php?snapfile=snap02
> 
> This would allow us to generate nice graphical interfaces for commandline tools (such as Kurumin has for qemu, for example, http://www.guiadohardware.net/kurumin/screenshots/kurumin-3.0qemu.png).
> 
> I know space is limited and this is about 2.5MB, but having kmdr-executor part of standard Knoppix would be extremely useful for creating beginner-proof interfaces for Knoppix. Users could contribute and share these.
> 
> At a side not, if you need something to remove, kstars can be easily live-installed using klik (and it's really big).
> 
> Thanks,
> probono

Does kommander have a syntax-compatible shell dialog equivalent, like
Xdialog/dialog?

What is the advantage of kommander as opposed to Xdialog?

Regards
-Klaus Knopper