GTK+ TTY Port

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."

Comments

april fools?

[DarkAurora]

Wasn't a similar thing with Qt an April fools joke a few months back?

Okay but

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

I realize this is all about geekiness factor, but how do they handle these :

- Widget alignments when whatever widgets you align don't fall exactly on their equivalent ascii places?

- GDK pixmaps : do they use AAlib to render them?

Alright, I'm off to recompile X-Chat. If it actually turns out good in ascii, nobody will be able to give me crap on IRC because I don't use 1337 BitchX :-)

very cool

[Atilla]

this is very handy, alhough I wonder how well it scales beyond 25x80...

this could also be very useful as a standalone X-less toolkit (a la Qt Embedded). RedHat (and some other distros) could really use a cleaner console widget toolkit... The one they use now (for system tools, etc) works like crap.

OTOH, I wonder what kind of resources it uses.

hmmm might have to try this out.

Re:But?

[DashEvil]

Yeah, that's a really good question, actually. Not just for GIMP though, but how HARD is it to compile any GTK2 app with this? I'm very interested in it. A lot of the trolls are sitting here bashing it as useless, but they don't realize the fundamental power that comes with flexability; the ability to use any GTK2 program ( which is a lot ) at the console through ssh is a great benefit.