Re: [Gaim-devel] Student Developer

[Eric P. <al...@gm...>]

ok...i've been looking for a bit, and i'm getting discouraged.  where
can i find the code for gaim text.  i checked out the entire svn tree
for gaim, where do i find it?  or is it in another project.

On 3/15/07, John Bailey <rek...@re...> wrote:
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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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