From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/48634 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: ... and now for something completely different: User Friendliness Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 23:10:45 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1041545454 4834 80.91.224.249 (2 Jan 2003 22:10:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 22:10:54 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18UDYC-0001Ff-00 for ; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 23:10:52 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18UDYR-0003Q8-00; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 16:11:07 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 02 Jan 2003 16:11:59 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (sclp3.sclp.com [66.230.238.2]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA25976 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 16:11:47 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 10846 invoked by alias); 2 Jan 2003 22:10:49 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 10839 invoked from network); 2 Jan 2003 22:10:47 -0000 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net (HELO yxa.extundo.com) (217.13.230.178) by 66.230.238.6 with SMTP; 2 Jan 2003 22:10:47 -0000 Original-Received: from latte.josefsson.org (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h02MAjRr018091 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 23:10:45 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Payment: hashcash 1.1 0:030102:ding@gnus.org:550f03942e4a0836 X-Hashcash: 0:030102:ding@gnus.org:550f03942e4a0836 In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Thu, 02 Jan 2003 20:37:49 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:48634 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:48634 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Simon Josefsson writes: > >> Doesn't GTK have wizards? If so, then one idea is to use them if they >> become accesible from elisp once the core C level GTK support in Emacs >> is finished (which are working quite nicely here). > > That's an interesting idea. But wizards should be available even if > you don't have an X display, I think. Perhaps it's possible to use > one wizard source, and deploy it both as something text-based as well > as GTK-based. Ah, yes. Hm. I wonder if there are any text based applications with wizards. I guess the Debian/RedHat/etc installers are kind of wizardslike. Maybe some ideas could be borrowed from them. > Do you know how GTK wizards are written? No, sorry.