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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?

    1. Re:But? by DashEvil · · Score: 5, Interesting

      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.

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      -If God wanted people to be better than me, he would have made them that way.
  2. april fools? by DarkAurora · · Score: 5, Interesting

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

  3. Forgot by brokencomputer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You forgot to mention how great this will be for slow computers with low ram. I can't wait to try this out on my P1!

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  4. 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!

  5. Charva does the same for Java by llouver · · Score: 5, Informative

    For a character base port of javax/swing...

    see charva: http://www.pitman.co.za/projects/charva/
    screenshot: http://www.pitman.co.za/projects/charva/images/cha rva1.png

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

    1992 called, and they want their GUI back!

  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. Eye Candy by femto · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Those screen shots actually look quite usable. (Well, no worse than the original versions of 'Turbo C'.)

    It's interesting that once the flashy grapics is stripped away, today's user interface looks (and functions?) basically the same as yesterdays. Perhaps much of what we call 'advances in user interface' is just eye candy, or am I being deceived by appearances?

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

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    or maybe something a little simpler, like:

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