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Jure Varlec wrote: |
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> > Hello, |
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> > I hope this post gets through, I just switched to using gmane, so |
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I'm sorry |
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> > if it gets posted incorrectly. |
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> > I take it you intend to use GTK. May I suggest you also provide ncurses |
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Yes, we expect to use mainly either Gtk+ or Qt; though any toolkit |
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easily available on Gentoo would work too. |
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> > interfaces to your programs? I'm not sure how much additional work that |
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> > would be, as I don't program UIs. But an additional ncurses |
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interface would |
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> > provide users with the comfort of having the same tools available in |
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case |
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> > their Xorg fails for some reason, and on their X-less servers. |
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This project is focused on 'Graphical Interfaces' (hence its name); |
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therefore that's our main priority. Though a ncurse alternative could be |
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nice for some users, that would imply take other roads that we are not |
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willing to take, at least not yet. It could be possible in the future to |
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re-use part of our work for ncurses and terminal based interfaces , but |
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as i said, it is not our priority. |
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> > Also, if a user modifies a tool-managed config file, the tool |
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shouldn't get |
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> > confused, and vice versa. I'm sure that goes without saying on |
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Gentoo, but |
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> > since I've only used GUI tools on Mandrake and Ubuntu and this is where |
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> > they often fail, I feel the need to mention it. For example, Ubuntu's |
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> > network config tool often didn't match what ifconfig said about the |
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> > interfaces' status; I don't want to know what would happen to it if |
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I used |
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> > ifconfig to actually change configuration. |
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Designing a GUI involves many layers , and therefore, many ways of |
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communicating these layers .. it might sound an easy work, but in |
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practice it's tough to do it right. |
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One of this project's goals is to do it right on Gentoo systems. |
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Thanks and Regards, |
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Luis F. Araujo "araujo at gentoo.org" |
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Gentoo Linux |
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