From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1I7TrD-0004wz-Rb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 08 Jul 2007 10:19:12 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l68AIFJV014989; Sun, 8 Jul 2007 10:18:15 GMT Received: from smtp3-g19.free.fr (smtp3-g19.free.fr [212.27.42.29]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l68AGOYb012751 for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2007 10:16:25 GMT Received: from [10.0.0.28] (car75-2-82-224-45-203.fbx.proxad.net [82.224.45.203]) by smtp3-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1AE35A260 for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2007 12:16:24 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4690B93D.1040309@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 12:15:25 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?R=E9mi_Cardona?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (X11/20070604) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: John Jawed & Alex Tarkovsky's einput eclass References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id l68AIFLY014989 X-Archives-Salt: 16e3abc8-5e50-434e-bd79-29de210ed72d X-Archives-Hash: fb57577b1453254845a49462faf5dfd3 Tiziano M=FCller wrote: > Sorry for the "atomic" posts, I should rather first think before hittin= g > the send button :-\ >=20 > The problem with the proposed einput.eclass is that the user has to use > the commandline for that, which is fine for a lot of people. >=20 > At the moment I'd rather like to see a proposal for an "API" (together > with the use cases it tries to solve) and leave the implementation > aside. Hoping that we get a solution which doesn't depend on the > commandline but can also be used with a GUI, a braille-display, etc. What would you think of a zenity-like API (it's a gnome utility) ? I think it's pretty much like dialog, there could be a way to write a common script for both based on a set of use cases. I think debian *gasp* has something like that. Could be worth taking a look at what they did. Cheers, R=E9mi --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list