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GTK+ TTY Port

Posted by michael on from the curses-foiled-again dept.

An anonymous reader writes: "FootNotes is reporting about what might be the coolest thing since textmode Quake: a curses-based GTK-2.0 port called Cursed GTK. This not only makes it possible to give Gnome the look and feel of Contiki, but also brings many real opportunities, such as remote logins where X forwarding is not possible, or remote logins over very slow modem lines. Screenshots here, here, here and here! Patches for bugs are welcomed by the authors."

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  1. But? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    How I'm supposed to run gimp with this thing?

  2. Wow. by schon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow.

    Here I was thinking that it was utterly impossible to make the GTK file dialogue worse than it already was.

    Zemljanka, I bow before you in humility!

    1. Re:Wow. by JohnFluxx · · Score: 3, Funny

      I know they were trying to make gtk faster, but this is ridiculous!

  3. Finally! by phraktyl · · Score: 4, Funny

    I won't have to bring up X to edit photos in the Gimp!

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    1. Re:Finally! by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 4, Funny

      I won't have to bring up X to edit photos in the Gimp!

      Even better : use a TTS with that and you've got gimp for the blind :

      Tool-Eraser-Star-Transparency-Minus-Minus-Minus- Pl us-Minus-Minus-Minus-PipeSign-ColorRed-ColorRed-Co lorRed-ColorRed-ColorRed-ColorRed-ColorRed-ColorRe d...

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  4. Re:Turbo Pascal by samjam · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah; When Delphi 1 came out we were dissapointed to find out it could do not much with all our old turbo-vision applications; we hoped they would be windows-ised.

    Well now we can text-ize many!

    Cheers, kudos and karma to those who did it!

    Huzzah!

    Sam

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  5. Hello! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    1992 called, and they want their GUI back!

  6. Re:april fools? by Turmio · · Score: 4, Funny

    Actually yes there was: http://qtconsole.nl.linux.org/. Pretty amusing thing. I wonder if this wicked mind got inspiration from that joke.

  7. Wonderful by AntEater · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now I can have a text mode file dialog that loses my default file name too.

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  8. Re:Huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Your problem is probably beetween the chair and your keyboard.

  9. Re:Shameless Plug by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ... all the TTY-weenies just jizzed their pants in one mass orgasm.

  10. XFree UI == UI free from XFree by axxackall · · Score: 2, Funny
    Should it be called TUI (TTY-based UI) or CUI (Curses-bases UI, or CLI-based UI)? And how about CWM, CLI-based Window Manager?

    On a serious note, is it GPM sensitive?

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  11. The key question by David_W · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does it support themes? :)

  12. Gnome Foot by Enucite · · Score: 5, Funny

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    or maybe something a little simpler, like:

    G

  13. Font AA? by Chupa · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, but can I get font antialiasing with that? :)