Re: KDE v. Gnome

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From: Bill Gribble
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 00:00

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Klaus Schilling <Klaus.Schilling@home.ivm.de> writes:
> I'll never write apps for a GUI desktop, be it called kde or w!"|"| doesn't
> matter. Good old termcap- or ncurses interfaces are the best.

Actually, termcap and ncurses interfaces are the most horrible
obstacle to tool interoperability that I can imagine.  At least X
interfaces leave the tool's standard input and output doing something
reasonable.

I want to be able to run programs non-interactively from a shell
script or from within another program.  Presuming that the "user" of
your program is a human being who has access to the keyboard is
generally a bad idea.  If you HAVE to have a termcap interface, at
least take a clue from the Debian package tool people and have a
command-line-only, scriptable backend with no GUI (dpkg) and a
front-end with termcap/ncurses interface (dselect), X interface
(xapt), etc.

Bill Gribble

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From: Bill Gribble <grib@cs.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome
Date: 1998/09/26
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