Low-overhead GUI toolkit for Linux w/o X11?

[Paul Rubin]

Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> writes:
> There is no mouse.  I'm not sure how many "widgets" are
> required.  Probably not very many.

Back in the old days there were some lightweight toolkits for doing
text mode GUI's using ANSI graphic characters for MS-DOS.  I did a few
of them.  You could do quite usable and attractive gui's that way, as
long as you didn't require too much bling.