[parted-devel] Proposal: Rewrite of Parted UI

[Debarshi Ray]

> Hi. I would like to re-suggest libgnt for this

I find libgnt and gntparted very interesting indeed. However I would
like to know how different is it from cfdisk? As far as I understand,
cfdisk is nothing but an ncurses based fronted to libparted, and so
are the other programs which are a part of GNU Fdisk. Although both
parted and gfdisk provide a Bash front-end to libparted, both are
different in the type of interface they provide. One is the native
Parted type user interface, while the other offers a more Linux Fdisk
like user interface making it transparent to new users of libparted.
Hence having both of them are necessary.

However I have a feeling that it would be redundant to have both
gntparted and cfdisk. The reason being that both are ultimately using
some textmode window environment to provide a front-end. If libgnt is
a wrapper for ncurses, which provides widgets, then it would make good
sense to re-write cfdisk using libgnt, or replace cfdisk with
gntparted. Since the GNU Fdisk family is not as widely used as GNU
Parted, it would not cause much of a problem. At the end of it all, we
can attract more users and developers to cfdisk because of the
ease-of-use injected by libgnt.

What do you think?

Happy hacking,
Debarshi
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