Hi Dave,
Being a visual thinker I am drawn to the concept embodied in Eaglemode. I do not know how or how well the software is excecuted, but for me at least being able to to see the structure 'from above' is appealing. As far as being keyboard friendly I can't say, but the idea of having a window/file manager with these capabilities seems very useful. Just my two cents worth.
the Eaglemode ZUI looks like a lot of fun. Thanks for sharing the link.
With my work in the foreseeable future, I'll concentrate on Sculpt's administrative interface though. It will be as bare-bones as I can get away with. My main concern is to keep the code complexity at a level that is suitable for thorough analysis/evaluation/verification.
I have not studdied the Eaglemode project in detail. It surely looks like a tempting system to deploy on top of Sculpt. On the other hand, the listed requirements contain quite a few road blocks, i.e., Xlib.
Cheers Norman