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>>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
>> 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 case their Xorg fails for some reason, and on their X-less servers.
> 
> Erm, there is a big hint: patches welcome.
> Ncurses has the disadvantage of being a bit "underdocumented".
> So programming isn't that much fun, although when someone is willing to
> start, help will be there for sure :)
> Though we don't limit ourselves to one GUI. From what I've heard on IRC,
> nobody declined a request for other toolkit(s) if other people help with it.
> 
> Greetz
> -Jokey
> 
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