Project status: missing dialogs

[ncruces]

The more useful (IMO) Zenity dialogs are implemented.
What's missing, and why?

• Calendar Dialog
• Color Selection Dialog
• File Selection Dialog
• Forms Dialog
  • too complex, can't/won't add
• List Dialog
  • single column only
  • other options too complex, can't/won't add
• Message Dialog
• Notification Icon
• Password Dialog
• Progress Dialog
• Scale Dialog
  • print-partial is hard, investigating
• Text Entry Dialog
• Text Information Dialog
  • too complex, not very useful, can't/won't add

[ncruces]

This project's goals are two-fold:

• a Go package that wraps most of zenity in a cross platform way, avoiding cgo;
• a “port” of the zenity command to macOS and Windows (including WSL and MSYS/Cygwin) based on that package, that doesn't require X.

This means some features need to be left out:

• features that don't port to Windows or macOS;
• features that go far beyond zenity.

To be clear…

It is a non-goal to wrap all of zenity, particularly at an high maintenance cost. The forms dialog is left out because on Windows it'd be complex to implement/maintain, and on macOS it'd require a whole new approach to implementing (given osascript limitations).

It is also a non-goal to implement features (like printing) that go beyond what zenity provides.

Issues and PRs that fail to address these complexities will be rejected. Please be mindful of this.

[ncruces]

If you're looking for ways to contribute, I'd welcome ports to either D-Bus Portal or KDialog.

If you're a KDE user (which I'm not) this might improve user experience significantly.