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From: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] eselect_zenity: alpha eselect GUI
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 12:10:31
Message-Id: 20071108120742.GK5516@supernova
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] eselect_zenity: alpha eselect GUI by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On 10:54 Thu 08 Nov , Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 02:48:13 -0800
3 > Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> wrote:
4 > > it has to parse eselect output
5 >
6 > Part of the idea behind using standardised output functions was that
7 > they could be replaced. The thought was, rather than trying to parse
8 > console-centric output, you'd swap in a different implementation of the
9 > output functions that fed to, say, ncurses or a GUI. Then you'd swap
10 > the driver logic with something that calls multiple tasks in order
11 > rather than merely doing one thing and then exiting (there's proper
12 > environment isolation to allow that).
13 >
14 > Might be easier to do things that way...
15
16 I'll look into that. Got any good starting points (files, functions,
17 docs)?
18
19 Thanks,
20 Donnie
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Re: [gentoo-dev] eselect_zenity: alpha eselect GUI Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@×××××××××××××.uk>