On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 11:27:21 -0400 Steve Litt <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 15:20:49 +0100 > Edward Bartolo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Although I have a working Lazarus written frontend, I am getting the > > message, it may not be accepted in Devuan, for the reason it is > > written in Lazarus Pascal. Therefore, I am considering taking the > > leap of trying to rewrite it for GTK2 or GTK3, the implementation > > language being C++. > > > > However, this is a high hurdle for me, and I cannot be confident I > > even succeed. > > > > In the case of opting to use GTK2 or GTK3, I will need an IDE to > > create the graphical interfaces. > > GTK* is, imho, too big a hammer for writing this simple back end. s/back end/front end/ I was thinking too fast for my brain. But of course, now that Lazarus is approved, Gtk/sxlib etc is a moot point. > It > would pull in thousands of lines of code. > > Ask about Py/Tk, and whether *that* would be accepted. Even Zenity: > Would that be accepted? Zenity would mean you could code your front > end as shellscripts, although the resulting user interface would look > a little like a 1989 DOS pseudo-windowing interface. > > Another suggestion, if you'd like to use C, is the libsx package: VERY > lightweight GUI. Here's a no-systemd notification system, using libsx, > that a guy on Debian-User wrote: > > http://a3b3.com/stuff/sxnotify.c > > The preceding link has detailed build instructions. > > IMHO GTK* and Qt* are waaaay overkill. > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > August 2015 featured book: Troubleshooting: Just the Facts > http://www.troubleshooters.com/tjust > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng SteveT Steve Litt August 2015 featured book: Troubleshooting: Just the Facts http://www.troubleshooters.com/tjust _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
