Re: [microdc-devel] New microdc user interface

[Jakub Jankowski]

On 2005-07-24, Oskar Liljeblad wrote:

> On Monday, July 18, 2005 at 15:46, Megizo Pet wrote:
>
> > This interface is only my suggestion.
> >
> > Servers: http://foto.apollo.lv/files/megizo/original/44736.jpg
> > Transfers: http://foto.apollo.lv/files/megizo/original/44737.jpg
> > Multi-source transfer details:
> > http://foto.apollo.lv/files/megizo/original/44735.jpg
>
> Looks pretty good to me! What you suggest is a "curses-like"
> user interface, no? I would like this as well. For example,
> we could add a command "show transfers" to enter a mode
> where the transfers are shown. Then I guess you could press
> "q" to exit from that mode. That would be a good start -
> eventually the interface could be 100% curses and 0% readline.

I suggest going further: why not use an interface that most cli-based 
IRC clients (like Irssi/BitchX/Epic) or other IM clients (ekg/ekg2) use, 
with ncurses 'windows'?
We could have a separate window for transfers, current nicklist visible 
all the time, and so on.
This kind of UI is 'natural' if you want to support connections to 
multiple hubs (if ever).

> It shouldn't be too hard to implement, but still it requires
> some thinking. We'll see in the future.

It shouldn't be too hard to implement, because there are some working 
implementations already. No need to reinvent the wheel. That's how 
opensource works. We can see how it's done in other projects, and if we 
know what problems it causes, we could try to improve it (or implement 
some parts in a different manner).

Of course that's quite a distant future. :-)

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