Many years ago (early 2000s), I wrote an application which I called Elicit. I did a lot of web and user interface design at the time, and wanted a tool to allow me to zoom in whatever it was that I was working on and also extract color information. The idea was based on a windows app called "Switch", which doesn't seem to be around anymore. Anyway, I was also involved in the open source desktop project, Enlightenment, so it was natural for me to use the libraries that I was familiar with to write the app. Over the years, I've added little bits here and there, including a major rework last year. However, I've always been a bit bothered by the fact that number of people who both used the unreleased desktop environment and cared about pixel level design was fairly small (on the order of tens of people). I ran across a forum post in which someone mentioned wanting to port the app to gtk. They had never contacted me about it, and as far as I could tell, never did the port. But, I had been toying with the idea myself for a while, so I decided to go ahead and do it.

After a few days of learning about how gtk works, I've got a lot more functionality implemented than I ever got to in the original. Of course, the user interface doesn't have the eye candy that the original had, but its much more usable. So, I've put up a page with the new code. Enjoy.

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