Re: [gtk-list] Re: PROPOSAL: Automatic wrapping of CLIs with GUIs

[John Looney <John Looney hos horizon ie>]

[ much on the excellent wickel idea deleted ]

 AmigaDOS used to have a standard way of allowing a programmer specify what
arguements and more importantly *types* of arguments an application wanted.
It's one of those things I wish Unix had at inception.

 Would it be possible for the freeware community (pushed by GNOME
developers) to come up with an application level way of allowing this ?
Even standardizing the output of "--help", so wickel, or something like it
could scan the output, and workout what options it expects. I think it's a
really horrible thing to have to make wickel configuration files for each
and every application that your standard unix system has.

 Or am I way out on what wickel is supposed to do...

Kate