Re: console widgets without X

2014-06-17 Thread Oron Peled
Hi, On Monday 16 June 2014 20:34:09 Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > But, console only! What are my options for such an application? Is there > any toolkit capable of presenting a nice-looking form withut X? In 2001 I used OpenGUI (http://www.tutok.sk/fastgl). It now seems orphaned (Last release in 2007

Re: console widgets without X

2014-06-16 Thread Noam Meltzer
Hi, On a similar scenario I chose newt. 1. IMHO, it looks very good considering it's a tui. 2. For Linux people it looks familiar and professional as red hat had used it for years in the installation (anaconda) and configuration tools (system-config-*). 3. The python binding is very good. - Noam

console widgets without X

2014-06-16 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Hi, I have a marketing problem. Imagine a linux box running in runlevel 3, no X. I want to have a special user who is only allowed to configure a few things on the console (physcal, VMware, whatever), but - marketing put their collective foot down hard here - the interface must "look nice". Defin