From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue May 5 05:17:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA29379 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Tue, 5 May 1998 05:17:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from internationalschool.co.uk ([194.72.37.214]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA29374 for ; Tue, 5 May 1998 05:17:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stuart@internationalschool.co.uk) Received: from internationalschool.co.uk (bamboo.tis [10.0.0.70]) by internationalschool.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA08212; Tue, 5 May 1998 13:04:56 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <354F0071.957895CA@internationalschool.co.uk> Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 13:05:05 +0100 From: Stuart Henderson Organization: The International School X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A GUI greyscale interface by default / sysinstall II References: <22910.894118096@time.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > The ideal "UI layer", of course, would treat the back-end "scribble on > the screen" bits abstractly enough that you could use the same "stick > me up a form that looks like this" code for both X and TTY COAS (www.coas.org) does this for command line, curses, X, and Java, in a modular design so that configuration tools for other programs can be plugged in. It's also designed to be backwards compatible (i.e. changing files directly won't cause problems with later edits in coas), also it has options to show what changes are being made, source code available for download (caldera made it available for the rest of linux world, I haven't looked at the code yet but surely a port will be easier than coding from scratch, and anything that makes moving from Linux to FreeBSD easier can't hurt either :-) Stuart To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message