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Article: 13344 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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Subject: suggestion for future gui
From: tom.horsley@att.net (Thomas A. Horsley)
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One of the things I find difficult about kermit is that it can do so much,
it is hard to dig through all the docs to find the settings and commands you
are looking for (hard to avoid, I know :-).
I've seen a gui interface technique that seems to be used more and more by
folks with lots of different settings to keep track of, and I thought I'd
recommend it for consideration as a way for kermit to go (eventually).
The interface uses a "tree" control on the left side with a heirarchal
organization of all the settings (like a table of contents). You can expand
and collapse entries to see or hide detail, and click on entries to bring up
the screen (on the right side) for controlling that setting.
Tools like the Windows XP "tweak ui" (from the XP powertools off
microsoft.com) use it and seems to work out pretty well (at least my brain
kind of likes the way the interface works - other brains may differ :-).
By the way, thanks for the latest and greatest kermit 95. I just discovered
I can update my web page via SSL/TLS secure ftp, so it is handy to have that
supported in k95!.
I've been setting up my XP boot partition, and reinstalled k95 from my
original 1.1 floppies (still have the floppies and the label with the
registration code :-), and then upgraded (in three stages) to 1.1.21,
and it all seems to work fine under XP.
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