On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 4:24 AM, Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
> I've got here a desktop app that quizzes the user with questions from > מבחן התיאוריה (the one people take when they learn driving). It's > basically a self-test/study app, using the questionset from the > Ministry's web site. (They publish questionsets in six languages, > I only tried the Hebrew set.) > > By "app" I mean a python script that prints questions to stdout, reads > answers from stdin, and displays images by invoking display(1) [a > minimal image viewer from imagemagick]. It doesn't have a GUI (beyond > the image displayer) since my target audience didn't need one. > > I can't release it as-is because $LEGAL_REASONS, but I could clean it up > to make it releaseable. Before I spend too much time on that, is that > something anybody would be interested in? > > [feel free to reply offlist] > > Cheers, > > Daniel > > P.S. It wasn't fun to get Hebrew to print correctly on all terminals: > there are differently-behaving terminals that use the same value of > $TERM (undermining terminfo-based solutions). I ended up using > $WINDOWID to get the terminal emulator's argv[0], and hardcoding > exceptions based on that. That's so 1990... > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > I wood live to see it. -- Rabin
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