From 777b655423393a399f22b3e59d4be0a979254d07 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: gryf Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2020 18:51:39 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Added README.rst --- README => README.old | 0 README.rst | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 31 insertions(+) rename README => README.old (100%) create mode 100644 README.rst diff --git a/README b/README.old similarity index 100% rename from README rename to README.old diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2fa6ce2 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.rst @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +==== +WICD +==== + +Wired and Wireless Network Connection Manager. + +This is expansion of the `original`_ WICD, which is semi dead project - even +though there was `some activity`_ regarding moving it to the Python3, its even +`been merged`_ to the original sources, yet it's still borken. + +My motivation is to make it usable again, and my effort concentrate on the +curses part of the project. + +What's works: + +1. Installation. It was broken, but the fix was trivial. So now, the usual + ``python setup.py install`` should just work. +2. TUI in ncurses. Actually, it's using `urwid`_ underneath. No + +What is not: + +1. GUI in GTK. WICD used to use `pygtk`_, which (unfortunately) is Python 2 + only project. I would be tempted to reimplement it with gobject, but I have + 0 motivation for doing so, because GTK2 is not supported through it. + + + +.. _original: https://launchpad.net/wicd +.. _some activity: +.. _been merged: +.. _urwid: