What is called the old style of the GUI interfaces?

[Barakat]

Hi all

I'm wondering about this kind of GUI Interfaces like Slackware setup program

What is called ? Also, Can it be used with Python?

[Cabhan]

I don't know exactly what you're referring to. Could you take a screenshot or find one online?

If you're talking about the widget toolkit, the modern ones are Gtk 2 (used in Gnome) and Qt (used in KDE). Gtk 1 used to be popular, and looks distinctly older than Gtk 2.

Even before that, there were things like Monad, which look even older (and which are even harder to use ).

Is there a particular reason you want to use an older widget toolkit? The older ones are also usually harder to use. Mots new graphical applications use Gtk2, Qt, or wxWidgets.

[Barakat]

Thank you Cabhan for replay

In fact that I didn't mean that kind of GUI interfaces which need for X to work

Just type in google images search "slackware setup program".

Maybe that would explain what I'm talking about .

[rcgreen]

NCURSES Programming HOWTO

[Cabhan]

Ah, okay. As rcgreen says, that is an ncurses interface. I don't tend to think of it as "old", because it is still used for non-X interfaces .

[kohog]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_user_interface

The Slackware tools use dialog, which in turn uses ncurses.
For python programs, you can use pythondialog.sourceforge.net.

[Barakat]

Thank you guys !

That what I was looking for