Originally Posted by tswindell

postinst is what you're looking for, you can run xterm from there, but popping up a dialog is much more user friendly. You can do that by writing a program to handle the dialog and executing it from the postinst script.

Originally Posted by D-Iivil

Hello,

is it possible to show user a dialog window asking yes / no question when he install a package via HAM?

I would like to make a theme package that will include some optional stuff and I'd like to ask user if he wants to install those extras or not. And if user presses "yes" then some shell commands are ran in the background, and if he answers no then other actions are taken.

Can someone provide some help? Thanks in advance!

Originally Posted by MohammadAG

Talked about this with tswindell but since he's offline I guess I'll post this.
Use zenity (I already had it installed, not sure if it comes preinstalled, if not just Depend on it) to display a dialog, see what the exit code is (if the user accepts it's 0, otherwise it's 1).
http://maemo.org/packages/view/zenity/

Code:

zenity --question --text="Install custom transitions?" --ok-label=Yes

should do.
To see the exit code (again, thanks to tswindell) add ;echo $? to the end.

If that works, thank his post above

Originally Posted by D-Iivil

Cool! So I can get the user's answer just by using $? ?

To be more clear, would this be workable (the postinst -file):

Code:

#! /bin/sh -e

zenity --question --text="Install custom transitions?" --ok-label=Yes

if [ "$?" == "0" ]; then

      # install the custom things
      exit 0

else

      # do not install the custom things
      exit 0

fi