From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ISt4Z-0003Pn-7x for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:29:27 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l85BM1d0010270; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 11:22:01 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l85BKCnb008039 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 11:20:12 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DF9364CB4 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 11:20:11 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: 1.547 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.547 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-1.614, BAYES_50=0.001, RCVD_IN_SBL=3.16] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id pW1TercD75vS for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 11:20:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4130164E74 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 11:20:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1ISsvS-0002Ek-B7 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:20:02 +0200 Received: from bsn-77-172-89.dial-up.dsl.siol.net ([193.77.172.89]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:20:02 +0200 Received: from exzombie by bsn-77-172-89.dial-up.dsl.siol.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:20:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Jure Varlec Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Graphical User Interfaces Project Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:07:38 +0200 Message-ID: References: <46DBCB6C.20401@gentoo.org> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: bsn-77-172-89.dial-up.dsl.siol.net User-Agent: KNode/0.10.5 Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 36b664dc-0696-42bf-824f-6bee0f091108 X-Archives-Hash: a9ad978fe39ac02d993cafeeae804f98 -----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 considered a very command line interface oriented > system; we believe there is always room for new 'ways' of doing things > in this distribution that helps our users to have a better Gentoo > experience. > > Our main idea is to develop and collect all the necessary applications > to offer GUI's (keeping Gentoo flexibility) for most of our system > tasks, offering an alternative for those users who like these kind of > interfaces. > > So we have started the Gentoo-GUI's project to work around the goal of > making Gentoo more 'GUIzed' :-) > > Please visit the site http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/guis/ for further > information. Note that we are just in the early stage of the project > right now, but anybody is welcome to participate on what we currently > have so far. > > Thanks and Regards, > > - -- > > Luis F. Araujo "araujo at gentoo.org" > Gentoo Linux > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFG28tsBCmRZan6aegRAtQrAJ9xjymmw49BQNezznjbzg/hdJW1TQCgjBRO > HSeHAahhPehzecaxPzOKx3Y= > =+CBK > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Hello, I hope this post gets through, I just switched to using gmane, so I'm sorry if it gets posted incorrectly. 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. Also, if a user modifies a tool-managed config file, the tool shouldn't get confused, and vice versa. I'm sure that goes without saying on Gentoo, but since I've only used GUI tools on Mandrake and Ubuntu and this is where they often fail, I feel the need to mention it. For example, Ubuntu's network config tool often didn't match what ifconfig said about the interfaces' status; I don't want to know what would happen to it if I used ifconfig to actually change configuration. Regards, Jure -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG3o36uf4XrD3ZBc8RAmQdAKCDq3pw1Gw65YzZiEJzC1StBjJNLwCghcFN cadW/sIkRVmQvjvdtk3Df0k= =plhQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list