[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Graphical User Interfaces Project

2007-09-05 Thread Jure Varlec
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Luis Francisco Araujo wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, A group of our developers and i have felt the need of working around a new goal inside Gentoo: Graphical User Interfaces (GUI). Though Gentoo has been

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Graphical User Interfaces Project

2007-09-05 Thread Markus Ullmann
Hello, I take it you intend to use GTK. May I suggest you also provide ncurses 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

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Graphical User Interfaces Project

2007-09-05 Thread Benjamin Gramlich
From what I can tell the goal is to make GUIs to programs like equery, rc-update, eclean, etc., right? Is there a formal design process here, or could we all just take a stab at it? Ciao, bg Markus Ullmann wrote: Hello, I take it you intend to use GTK. May I suggest you also provide ncurses

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Graphical User Interfaces Project

2007-09-05 Thread Luis Francisco Araujo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Benjamin Gramlich wrote: From what I can tell the goal is to make GUIs to programs like equery, rc-update, eclean, etc., right? Is there a formal design process here, or could we all just take a stab at it? Ciao, bg Yes, plus any other

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Graphical User Interfaces Project

2007-09-04 Thread Steve Long
Luis Francisco Araujo wrote: himerge is not really new ; it's been around for a good while now. Its name stands for 'Haskell Interface for Emerge' ; plus i think some of those GUI's you are mentioning didn't exist when i started himerge or they don't offer all that himerge does.