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On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Janina Sajka wrote:

> It is possible to query all available objects on the gnome desktop, or 
> for a particular app, and obtain data, including text labels, data 
> values, etc. So, it is reasonable to consider that one might, for 
> instance, create an ncurses interface to gui applications. No one has 
> built such an interface to my knowledge, but the opportunity is there.

Actually, somebody has tried this.  It is known as "cursing GTK."  I 
haven't tried it out, mainly because the person who was working on this 
wasn't exactly fluent in English, and I couldn't comprehend exactly what 
one would need to do to get it working.  In any case, the web site for 
this is at: http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/cursed/cursed.html.  As 
I said, the English is pretty bad, but apparently, somebody with a lot of 
patience might be able to make use of this.