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>From what I can tell the goal is to make GUIs to programs like equery, |
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rc-update, eclean, etc., right? Is there a formal design process here, |
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or could we all just take a stab at it? |
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Ciao, |
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bg |
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Markus Ullmann wrote: |
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>> Hello, |
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>> I take it you intend to use GTK. May I suggest you also provide ncurses |
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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 interface |
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>> would provide users with the comfort of having the same tools available |
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>> in case their Xorg fails for some reason, and on their X-less servers. |
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> Erm, there is a big hint: patches welcome. |
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> Ncurses has the disadvantage of being a bit "underdocumented". |
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> So programming isn't that much fun, although when someone is willing to |
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> start, help will be there for sure :) |
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> Though we don't limit ourselves to one GUI. From what I've heard on IRC, |
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> nobody declined a request for other toolkit(s) if other people help with it. |
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> Greetz |
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> -Jokey |
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