From owner-freebsd-libh Fri Sep 22 11: 1: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-libh@freebsd.org Received: from neutron.cichlids.com (p3E9C110C.dip.t-dialin.net [62.156.17.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A849A37B424 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 11:00:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cichlids.cichlids.com (cichlids.cichlids.com [192.168.0.10]) by neutron.cichlids.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DBBFAB91; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 20:01:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: by cichlids.cichlids.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 388A414A69; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 20:01:02 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 20:01:02 +0200 To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: freebsd-libh@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Check out the UI abstraction of this thing Message-ID: <20000922200102.F18550@cichlids.cichlids.com> References: <200009190758.e8J7wEM23754@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200009190758.e8J7wEM23754@winston.osd.bsdi.com>; from jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com on Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 12:58:14AM -0700 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 44 28 CA 4C 46 5B D3 A8 A8 E3 BA F3 4E 60 7D 7F X-PGP-at: finger alex@big.endian.de X-Verwirrung: Dieser Header dient der allgemeinen Verwirrung. From: alex@big.endian.de (Alexander Langer) Sender: owner-freebsd-libh@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thus spake Jordan Hubbard (jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com): > If nothing else, the idea for doing a batch interface front end (see the VIM > screen shot) is one which deserves to be emulated. The "plain text interface" > (upper right) also looks very much like what I'd always envisoned for such Looks nice. However, I think libh is way more powerful, since the debconf thing just seems like a "question-multiple-answer -> next question" choice system. We have multiple widgets, e.g. dialog-boxes, file-selection-dialogs, buttons, labels, listboxes, progressbars (!) and so on. OTOH, we can implement such question/answer toys easily, too. If we can implement the ViM/Text parts is another question. I believe, we can, if we limit the number of widgets for that backend (or something similar). I could also imagine to create a futher lib (beside hui/disk/file etc), that offers, similar to the hui lib, a backend to a thing similar to the debconf stuff, and THEN maps that into Hui-stuff. It's worse some thoughts :-) Alex -- cat: /home/alex/.sig: No such file or directory To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-libh" in the body of the message