Re: Suggestion

[Andrew Clausen]

Nehal wrote:
> I have a suggestion for parted and maybe you can consider it. I can see
> that there is only a text version available. Maybe you can add a ncurses
> interface to it, as it would make things much more 'convenient'.

Not quite true.  MI (distro.conectiva.com.br/projetos) has a newt and
gtk
front end.  Dam Genet has written another GTK front end, RH are writing
one
(aren't you, Matt?)

> There
> is the 'nparted' front-end but it doesnt work quite well, so maybe you
> can make an official front-end.

Yes, it's horrible.

I personally think it's stupid investing too much time in writing a
perfect front end, at this stage, because a good front end should
use a concept, known by many names (I'm calling it "operation queues"),
which isn't implemented in libparted yet.

This has big implications for how a UI would work.

Andrew Clausen