Re: New apps

[Alexey Marinichev <lyosha lyosha transas com>]

On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 09:56:56AM +0200, D. Emilio Grimaldo Tunon wrote:
>   Most certainly a learning experience, but why not spend the
> effort in writing a GUI for things that don't have it
> (or I haven't heard of it yet...) such as Samba configuration,
> /etc/ftp* etc etc etc :-) vim already has a GUI version
> named gvim which runs under Athena (sp?) or Motif. Or even
> better, invent your own application ;-) that's what I do and
> at least in my case gives me more satisfaction.

The reason is very simple.  Motif isn't free and Athena looks ugly.  Gtk is
free and looks pretty.  Vim is the editor I like the best, I want it to have
gtk gui, nobody is really interested, so I want to try myself.

I don't want to write any configuration utilities -- I won't be using it, I
prefer editing text files in vim :-)  Well, I'm not sure I'll be using gtk vim
either, I prefer text mode, but well, it's fun!

	--Lyosha