Re: [Gaim-devel] Student Developer

[John B. <rek...@re...>]

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Eric Polino wrote:
> you make reference to gnt a lot.  i'm not familiar with this.  what is it?
> 
> the whole plugin-pref-ui using the request-ui, this i'm also not sure
> what you're talking about. i've never worked with plugins, so that
> might account for the lack of knowledge there.
> 
> i'm glad you've contacted me.  i've been talking to the gtk-gaim
> fellows about working on the privacy stuff.  but if we can get a good
> set of projects for gaim-text, i'd much rather do that for an SOC
> application.  i'll keep doing some research on both of them and see
> where they go.
> 
> Eric

"Gnt" refers to libgnt, which is the library used to create gaim-text's
interface.  When used as "gnt ui," it refers to gaim-text.  GNT stands for
either Gaim Ncurses Toolkit or Glib Ncurses Toolkit, as I recall from
discussions with Sadrul, and provides an interface to ncurses that is intended
to be similar to the GTK+ API.

In theory, using libgnt you could have numerous console applications in a single
windowed environment, similar to how you can have multiple graphical
applications in a windowed environment using X-Windows.  This is perhaps one of
the most attractive aspects to using libgnt as opposed to a more traditional
ncurses-based approach, but I believe currently gaim-text is the only
application making use of libgnt.

John
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