Re: [gentoo-dev] eselect_zenity: alpha eselect GUI

[Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org>]

On 10:54 Thu 08 Nov     , Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 02:48:13 -0800
> Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > it has to parse eselect output
> 
> Part of the idea behind using standardised output functions was that
> they could be replaced. The thought was, rather than trying to parse
> console-centric output, you'd swap in a different implementation of the
> output functions that fed to, say, ncurses or a GUI. Then you'd swap
> the driver logic with something that calls multiple tasks in order
> rather than merely doing one thing and then exiting (there's proper
> environment isolation to allow that).
> 
> Might be easier to do things that way...

I'll look into that. Got any good starting points (files, functions, 
docs)?

Thanks,
Donnie
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