On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 03:54:07PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Hi, Rich!
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> > I see working being done but the list at gnome ends in Sept 2000.
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> This was done to hide the lists from spammers. The right solution would be
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Hi, dudes!
I'm still thinking, that rewritting mc(mc2:) is the best solution in our case.
We do have perfect tool for the moment, but it suffers from all that legacy code,
spagetty functions and all that multi-frontend issues...
We can try to reuse gnome-vfs, which gives asyncronous access to the FS, what
was always an issue in MC - scaning of big directories takes notable amount of
time, impossible to break FS operation in the middle, all the issues with FTP
updating, etc...
We activelly use glib now, but that can be used even more widelly...
Widget system - There are plenty of hacks to make it work on old curses, which
isn't an option nowdays - slang and ncurses was ported to everything....
I'm not sure, that gtk+ can be used as a independent layer for widget system. I
remember, that Pavel Macek did some coding to provide text mode gdk backend for
gtk+, but he faced with some difficulties with proper screen layout, and I don't
remember, was it fixed or not.
But, if we'll be able to get working gtk+ in a text mode, it'll give us a front
end independent widget library, at the top of which we'll be able to build dif-
ferent flavours of MC2. Otherwise we need to reinvent that layer ourselves.
Also, I heard a lot of complains about absence of plug-in system in MC, like
a Windows NC-like clone, FAR, has. And the last one is really neat.
Personally, I really would like to get something such nice, as MC and FAR for
console mode, but improved. And I think, that rewritting is a good option in
this case.
Hope that we'll make that desision sooner or later!
With best regards,
Timur Bakeyev.
> --
> Regards,
> Pavel Roskin
