>> Oh, and to come in on an earlier point that was made, TUI sucks, the >> only good thing about it is that TUI programs tend to have better >> keybindings and scriptability. > Well my thoughs on interface: CLI is very good because it is "unidimensional" > streams/lines of texts. Which is mostly simple to understand and handle. > Trouble is we sometimes need two dimensional representation of data (very > likely that is overused). And for this task we have GUI and TUI, realistically > GUI should be superior to TUI, but sometimes you just do not have graphical > access, and then having TUI might be quite nice. And even though ncurses seem > to be kinda sucky, I think most of GUI toolkits do not fare much better. There > might be exceptions (like mentioned tk, which allows very simple and quick > creation of guis, though not in C...) I think it would be hard to say that gtk > or qt is significantly better then curses. I believe most suckiness of curses > comes from the fact that it has to know how to interact with tons terminals > and > not from the part that its TUI interface library (though former flows from the > latter).
So, what I'm telling is to write a simpler library that will support a very limited number of terms. That would make it light and suckless.
