-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jure Varlec wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I hope this post gets through, I just switched to using gmane, so I'm sorry > > if it gets posted incorrectly. > > > > I take it you intend to use GTK. May I suggest you also provide ncurses
Yes, we expect to use mainly either Gtk+ or Qt; though any toolkit easily available on Gentoo would work too. > > interfaces to your programs? I'm not sure how much additional work that > > would be, as I don't program UIs. But an additional ncurses interface would > > provide users with the comfort of having the same tools available in case > > their Xorg fails for some reason, and on their X-less servers. > > This project is focused on 'Graphical Interfaces' (hence its name); therefore that's our main priority. Though a ncurse alternative could be nice for some users, that would imply take other roads that we are not willing to take, at least not yet. It could be possible in the future to re-use part of our work for ncurses and terminal based interfaces , but as i said, it is not our priority. > > Also, if a user modifies a tool-managed config file, the tool shouldn't get > > confused, and vice versa. I'm sure that goes without saying on Gentoo, but > > since I've only used GUI tools on Mandrake and Ubuntu and this is where > > they often fail, I feel the need to mention it. For example, Ubuntu's > > network config tool often didn't match what ifconfig said about the > > interfaces' status; I don't want to know what would happen to it if I used > > ifconfig to actually change configuration. > > Designing a GUI involves many layers , and therefore, many ways of communicating these layers .. it might sound an easy work, but in practice it's tough to do it right. One of this project's goals is to do it right on Gentoo systems. Thanks and Regards, - -- Luis F. Araujo "araujo at gentoo.org" Gentoo Linux -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG3zJGBCmRZan6aegRAqGLAJ4/JoYrGrTdJzjfoqgEGPvJJHBbWQCfU1Vb LLRKqzkk5qpNLP1ltxRmde8= =pk7v -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
