Add an old-school ASCII-art version of the update dialog as a fallback under Linux when GTK is not available.

If the GTK UI cannot be loaded, this will pop up a terminal displaying
progress information.  Hopefully users will find this mildly amusing.

src/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -49,6 +49,11 @@ set (HEADERS
   UpdaterOptions.h
 )
 
+if (UNIX)
+	set(HEADERS ${HEADERS} UpdateDialogAscii.h)
+	set(SOURCES ${SOURCES} UpdateDialogAscii.cpp)
+endif()
+
 if (ENABLE_GTK)
 	# embed the GTK helper library into the updater binary.
 	# At runtime it will be extracted and loaded if the

src/UpdateDialogAscii.cpp

@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+#include "UpdateDialogAscii.h"
+
+#include "ProcessUtils.h"
+#include "StringUtils.h"
+
+const char* introMessage = 
+ "Mendeley Updater (ASCII-art edition)\n"
+ "====================================\n"
+ "\n"
+ "We have a nice graphical interface for the Mendeley Updater, but unfortunately\n"
+ "we can't show it to you :(\n"
+ "\n"
+ "You can fix this by installing the GTK 2 libraries.\n\n"
+ "Installing Updates...\n";
+
+void UpdateDialogAscii::init()
+{
+	const char* path = "/tmp/update-progress";
+	m_output.open(path);
+	m_output << introMessage;
+
+	std::string command = "xterm";
+	std::list<std::string> args;
+	args.push_back("-hold");
+	args.push_back("-T");
+	args.push_back("Mendeley Updater");
+	args.push_back("-e");
+	args.push_back("tail");
+	args.push_back("-n+1");
+	args.push_back("-f");
+	args.push_back(path);
+
+	ProcessUtils::runAsync(command,args);
+}
+
+void UpdateDialogAscii::updateError(const std::string& errorMessage)
+{
+	m_mutex.lock();
+	m_output << "\nThere was a problem installing the update: " << errorMessage << std::endl;
+	m_mutex.unlock();
+}
+
+void UpdateDialogAscii::updateProgress(int percentage)
+{
+	m_mutex.lock();
+	m_output << "Update Progress: " << intToStr(percentage) << '%' << std::endl;
+	m_mutex.unlock();
+}
+
+void UpdateDialogAscii::updateFinished()
+{
+	m_mutex.lock();
+	m_output << "\nUpdate Finished.  You can now restart Mendeley Desktop." << std::endl;
+	m_mutex.unlock();
+}
+
+

src/UpdateDialogAscii.h

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+#pragma once
+
+#include "UpdateObserver.h"
+
+#include <fstream>
+#include "tinythread.h"
+
+class UpdateDialogAscii : public UpdateObserver
+{
+	public:
+		void init();
+
+		virtual void updateError(const std::string& errorMessage);
+		virtual void updateProgress(int percentage);
+		virtual void updateFinished();
+
+	private:
+		tthread::mutex m_mutex;
+		std::ofstream m_output;
+};
+

src/main.cpp

@@ -7,8 +7,11 @@
 
 #include "tinythread.h"
 
-#if defined(PLATFORM_LINUX) and defined(ENABLE_GTK)
-  #include "UpdateDialogGtkWrapper.h"
+#if defined(PLATFORM_LINUX)
+  #if defined(ENABLE_GTK)
+  	#include "UpdateDialogGtkWrapper.h"
+  #endif
+  #include "UpdateDialogAscii.h"
 #endif
 
 #if defined(PLATFORM_MAC)
@@ -88,12 +91,18 @@ int main(int argc, char** argv)
 void runWithUi(int argc, char** argv, UpdateInstaller* installer)
 {
 #ifdef ENABLE_GTK
+	UpdateDialogAscii asciiDialog;
 	UpdateDialogGtkWrapper dialog;
 	bool useGtk = dialog.init(argc,argv);
 	if (useGtk)
 	{
 		installer->setObserver(&dialog);
 	}
+	else
+	{
+		asciiDialog.init();
+		installer->setObserver(&asciiDialog);
+	}
 	tthread::thread updaterThread(runUpdaterThread,installer);
 	if (useGtk)
 	{