How cool! I discovered yesterday that the answer to my previous wishlist already exists in the form of libglade. It's not *quite* the same: the mini-language isn't a simple "%d %s %-5d", it's XML, and as such you don't do it inline, you do it as a separate file, but it means you can write a nice little /etc/passwd displayer in a dozen lines of code (well, along with some GUI clickery). Brilliant :)