[circle] A question about The Circle's preferred gui

[Adon Metcalfe]

This is meant to be kind of like a poll. Currently the gui for The
Circle is undergoing some changes. At the moment we have the pygtk gui
which is nice, but crashes a fari bit.

Then we have the 2 new gui's I'm trying to pull together with my nil
knowledge of programming anything but C (I done some document
processing, and some ascii mazes and other totally random useless
stuff, except for the prime number generator I made in the beginning),
and having never done gui's before (python seems really hard after C,
maybe coz I sick at english (its the only language I know)) The first
one is in wxpython designed (at the moment) entirely in wxglade and the
other bits will be done in Stani's Python Editor. The cvs is kinda out
of date, last night I stayed up till around 2 in the am working on
wxpython stuff, but then it broke, so I won't upload it till I get it
working. I also bought a python cookbook yesterday, and am gonna be
distracted by it for a bit. The other option for a gui is the XUL
interface with _javascript_ actions. I don't really like java, so i think
I will try and merge python in there somewhere, but I'm still in the
dark how it works. The really cool thing about XUL is it runs in your
awesomely cool gecko browser (mozilla/firefox), and can be viewed in
the sidebar, the main window, or as a separate windows. Firefox was
written entirely in it, so theoretically anything firefox can do I can
do...

So now we have three options, and I need some direction as to which to
put the most effort into.

1.   The pygtk gui - the original, and only one that works at the moment
2.   The wxpython gui - my first idea, and most likely a bit faster
than pygtk on windows (I don't know though, coz I don't use windows).
3.   The XUL gui - The next idea I had, that sprung into my head just
so I could appear fickle, though it could be really cool, because
usually filesharing is tightly linked into browsing the web. 

As well as that I'd like to know wether The Circle's gui should support
other filesharing daemons (e.g. MLDonkey, giFT. opennap, etc, etc) as
the current pygtk one is by far the coolest linux filesharing gui out
there. (on windows its outperformed by shareaza)

well now that I finished my rant about my dilemma, I expect all of you
to come up with some grand scheme that outperforms anything I've said
(coz my head hurts, and I think that The Circle should focus on
innovation as well as developing and using new technologies)

Don't forget, The Circle's motto is to "Take Over THe World", in a
completely filesharing sense, as we have to provide whats easiest/best
for most users to attract them to The Circle. Due to this I refuse to
work on a command line interface, the commands you can pass on are
perfectly fine.

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