On Wed, 15 May 1996, Kevin M Bealer wrote: > On Tue, 14 May 1996, Christian Hudon wrote: > > > About the interface, it'd be nice to have something mc-ish. (mc = Midnight > > Commander; get it and take a look if you don't have it, there's a Debian > > package for it). It's got pull-down menus and dialog boxes... it's very > > nice, supports gpm mice and is something DOS people will recognize > > instantly. > > > > And since mc is GPL'ed, we could borrow their low-level > > interface code. Would save quite a bit of coding work and would make for a > > nice interface, IMHO at least. > > There's libraries for this already, for example ncurses. OTOH I understand > they are quite large (and would have to be linked static of course). Which > does not bother me personally.
I know. But ncurses only provides the tools, it doesn't provide a specific user interface design. (eg compare mc and ncftp). And ncurses is already on the base floppies, so I don't think it would have to be linked static. Christian