As TUI can show its true power only when it is already installed on your system, so one could simply share the scripts that rely on TUI, just like one shares any bash or other shell script, I wanted to become part of GNU.
That is no easy task, specialy if you come from a 4 year old project that hasnt had this goal from start.
So, for the past 10 months, its been in the GNU Evaluation queue and just until a day ago it look very promising.
However, it got rejected for the moment, as more user feedback is wanted for them to evaluate the need/profit of making TUI part of the GNU family.
With one of the arguments beeing that we would need some user feedback for further evaluation.
That is, because TUI has a new approach to the terminal...
An approach mainwhile quite the same, but also quite different.
In the beginning, I wanted the 'ultimate' dir/menu browser for (a single specific) directory based script project/s.
In the end I extracted those functions as I wanted to have the scripts provided in named directories to look/match the containing 'ultimate' menu, so I made them individual commands.
Due to this change, one can also create great (single file) wizzards or wrappers around other cli/clu applications or make tools that act (but dont look like) 'ip' or 'iw' commands, just for your custom directory-tree structure.
It comes with many commands/functions for often used tasks, such as tui-yesno, tui-select, tui-read, as well as nice optical commands such as tui-header and tui-title.
As it is a command and line-based-output framework, it might look weird if you just try a single command.
To get started - once installed, you might want to check:
tuirc samplesTo get the manual, please check either:
tuirc provides
info tuiI'm asking here for this required feedback:
tuirc info
tuirc html # Only if you used "make install all"
- Which OS/Distro?
- Does Installer work?
- Does running 'tuirc' raise any, and if - what kind of - error messages? (Besides initial creating of user configuration)
- Any other errors/bugs/unexpected behaviour you came along?
- What are our thoughts about the 'tuirc samples' and info page?
- Did you find any security bugs? - have any advice how to fix them?
I'd very much like to have confirmed reports on which OS or Distro it installs and runs well or not.
That is also required to get it working for that OS/Distro, eventhough most of them work alike, there are differences i might not be aware to catch and handle (properly) without reports and hints how its done on your OS.
Thank you in advance for sharing your thoughts about TUI.
