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Right now, those tools are mainly for command line users. Needless to say, this makes it very difficult to use for many people who just want to play a game, and who do not have a strong technical background. | Right now, those tools are mainly for command line users. Needless to say, this makes it very difficult to use for many people who just want to play a game, and who do not have a strong technical background. | ||
During GSoC 2007, progress was made in unifying the internal code of these tools (mainly the compression tools). Also a basic GUI wrapper using wxWidget was added, as a first step towards making the tools usable for non-experts. However, this wrapper is right now a very | During GSoC 2007, progress was made in unifying the internal code of these tools (mainly the compression tools). Also a basic GUI wrapper using wxWidget was added, as a first step towards making the tools usable for non-experts. However, this wrapper is right now a very thin shell around the true complexity of the tools. | ||
Your task would be to turn this GUI tool into a truly amazing and portable tool (usable on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X at least, ideally on more) which would be very easy to use for beginners, yet offers (optionally) the full power of the compression tools for experts. | Your task would be to turn this GUI tool into a truly amazing and portable tool (usable on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X at least, ideally on more) which would be very easy to use for beginners, yet offers (optionally) the full power of the compression tools for experts. |
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