Hi, On a similar scenario I chose newt. 1. IMHO, it looks very good considering it's a tui. 2. For Linux people it looks familiar and professional as red hat had used it for years in the installation (anaconda) and configuration tools (system-config-*). 3. The python binding is very good.
- Noam On 16 Jun 2014 20:34, "Oleg Goldshmidt" <p...@goldshmidt.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a marketing problem. Imagine a linux box running in runlevel 3, > no X. I want to have a special user who is only allowed to configure a > few things on the console (physcal, VMware, whatever), but - marketing > put their collective foot down hard here - the interface must "look > nice". Definition of "nice" will be made clear a few lines down. > > The functional requirements are simple - a form with a few labeled input > fields (with default values filled in at the start) + "save" and > "cancel" buttons. The form may be full screen. I'd like to have the > application as the special user's login shell. > > But, console only! What are my options for such an application? Is there > any toolkit capable of presenting a nice-looking form withut X? > > Here are things I've thought about: > > 1. ncurses - obviously. Not a very sophisticated look, to the point that > I can't be sure it will be acceptable - this is the "nice" border, > and ncurses may actually be on the wong side of it. I'd prefer to > research alternatives before suggesting it. > > 2. newt - seems similar to ncurses visually. > > 3. pdmenu - ugly as hell, and not sure forms are possible. Will never > pass the nice-looking test. > > 4. A web server. Rather than have a special user with an app for the > login shell, connect using a browser. Very good from the nice looking > POV. However, can't run a web server, really, for reasons I won't go > into. > > 5. dialog(1) - actualy may pass the muster... A notch beter looking than > newt... My current favourite. > > 6. Various toolkits (Tcl/Tk, Tinker, etc.) would probably pass the > aesthetics committee, but all seem to require X. > > Any other suggestions? > > Thanks, > > -- > Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >
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