[X2Go-Dev] - Dependency for kdialog

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Am 13.02.2012 13:18, schrieb Moritz Struebe:
> On 2012-02-13 11:02, Sören Plönnigs wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> is it possible to remove the dependency for kdialog from x2goserver
>> package?
>> [...]
> What about switching to zenity? It needs GTK, but opposed to KDE, that
> should be available on almost any system, shouldn't it?

Well, I'm not Sören, but IMO it should not be hard-coded to any *dialog 
at all.
My current systems, which obviously and admittedly are "historically 
grown", are Gnome-free and based on KDE.
Which is probably why I never noticed that kdialog is hardcoded here, 
since everything worked for me.
In the future, I'd like to move away from that and use a bare minimum 
install providing only the absolutely necessary binaries to my users 
(they're using rootless mode, so I don't need a full-blown desktop 
environment) - that should significantly reduce the required disk space 
and thus make updating/upgrading these distributed systems (spread 
across Germany, with some in rural regions with "DSL lite" connections) 
a lot easier...

I was hoping that I could do away with dialog-based scripts entirely, 
thanks to Alex' willingness to add a much-needed (by me, at least ;-)) 
feature to X2Go soon, but if there still is a need for some kind of 
*dialog, it should be configurable (and I'd probably use Xdialog on my 
machines, even though it is currently unmaintained).

-Stefan