Comment by marcodiego
2 days ago
This is interesting, but there was something that was even more impressive many years ago: a GTK theme that rendered all decoration and widgets using text chars and a GDK backend that rendered to text. Combine both and you could run any GTK app on a terminal with legible text and a beautiful TUI.
Link is dead. Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20080924152845/http://zemljanka....
Damn I have a vague memories of seeing this thing in Fedora Core
why did this go away?
Maybe linking to this reminded the owner that they had a sourceforge account they had forgotten about, and they took the opportunity to delete it.