I'm pretty busy with other things right now and won't have time to work on wickel for the next few weeks. If you feel like playing around with the code, I'd highly appreciate any comments (and code-snippets to include). In particular, if you write any files to wrap any other programs, I would be really interested in adding these files to the distribution.
It's not dead, it's just hibernating :)
wickel wraps traditional UNIX command line tools with a nice GUI to make them easier to use. Used with tooltips and helppages it can be used (sometime in the future) to be a more user-friendly complement to traditional manpages.
| Wrapping of enscript | Wrapping of ls |
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| Click on the pictures to see the source from which the GUIs were created. | |
These GUIs were created from a formal description of the command line options for these two programs. The descriptions are small and easy to understand; see for yourself: the input file for the enscript example and the input file for the ls example.
If you want further information, you can find some more notes here.
You can download the whole program here. Be warned though, that this is a very sketchy implementation and not sophisticated at all. You will also need GUILE, GTK+ and the guile-gtk bindings.