bl-dropbox-pipemenu doesn't show progress of dependency installation about bunsen-pipemenus HOT 7 CLOSED

…or just do a

notify-send 'Dropbox' 'Installation finished'

at the end of the script. It can't take too long after all.

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There is already a notification when the install is complete.

The point is that there is nothing displayed while the installation of the dependencies is going on. What is a reasonable time to wait before thinking the script has failed? 3 or 4 secs may be OK, but 30+ secs on an old machine with a slow connection is not acceptable IMO.

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OK there are already functions safeInstall() and terminalCheck() available in the common file - it might be easy to put something together. I'll have a look.

It can't take too long after all.

That's what I thought to be honest - it's one small package, and I never noticed any appreciable delay, but if damo did then some other users will probably feel uncomfortable too.

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python-gpgme also pulls in several other libs btw.

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Guess it depends on the state of your system beforehand. When I tried it I don't remember other stuff coming with it. Was it a lot of bytes?

For a while I was wondering if the install section of the script should be rewritten to run in a terminal like the other install pipemenus, but the zenity and notify-send stuff is so built in it feels like a shame to undo all that work. (By Philip I guess.)

Anyway @capn-damo your suggestion looks good. I might try exporting the safeInstall function to the terminal though.

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Getting stuck because I haven't been able to find any way to test the return value of a command run in a terminal launched as a child of a script.

Any suggestions? The script will need to know if the installation of python-gpgme succeeded before continuing.

Otherwise it might have to be back to gksu, and just put up a "please wait" note or something.

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Fixed in bunsen-pipemenus (8.6.3-1)
python-gpg is installed in a terminal window.

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