Hi, On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 1:52 AM, Mateusz Viste <[email protected]> wrote: > > As most people that responded yet, I do not use GUI stuff on DOS, hence > such application would be useless to me.
Most of us don't, probably because it's hard to automate (script) things that way. > GUI projects were probably > interesting back in 1992, when people were *forced* to use DOS, and many > wished some easy colourful interface. But today, the only people still > using DOS are these that likes DOS for what it is - ie. a single-task, > text-mode shell. Well, yes, GUIs are somewhat catering to noobs. :-) But they can sometimes be beneficial as well. Of course, a lot of that can similarly be accomplished with TUI. > Anyway, myself - I wouldn't ever use such GUI. If you're looking for > ideas for a DOS project, then there is one particular thing that I would > be thrilled to use in DOS (and that I plan to create myself one day, > when time allows, unless someone fills the gap before): an open-source > (BSD, GPL or PD) equivalent of the excellent SEA DOS Viewer program. I think we (briefly) discussed some alternatives once before. Yeah, there is no perfect answer (although Blocek can view many images as well, and at least it's free/libre; never did find all the obscure PacePlayer sources, ugh). > That is, a very fast, multi-format image viewer with a nice UI, scaling > capabilities and some embedded conversion tools. It seems we can't agree on what exactly is in a UI. For instance, are we viewing graphics? Clickable, runnable icons (a la menu)? Or just browsing files (file manager)? Integrated apps (drag and drop, clipboard)? So I don't know what we're trying to accomplish here. It's not a bad idea, but indeed it's probably best to study pre-existing solutions unless you know exactly what you want to do. P.S. One GUI that I didn't see anyone mention is this (although I never really tried it): http://ozonegui.sourceforge.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=272487151&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
