From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 27 13:48: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cody.jharris.com (cody.jharris.com [205.238.128.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2983037B417 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 13:47:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (nick@localhost) by cody.jharris.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g1RLn5O78101; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 15:49:05 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from nick@rogness.net) Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 15:49:05 -0600 (CST) From: Nick Rogness X-Sender: nick@cody.jharris.com To: Miguel Mendez Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Meet fish (read on) In-Reply-To: <20020227223901.C16555@energyhq.homeip.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Miguel Mendez wrote: > Hi there hackers, > > Some time ago, Terry proposed the creation of a graphical rc.conf > editing tool. While the idea of mimicing the rededit program did not > appeal much, I find it interesting to have a graphical tool for > rc.conf management, specially for people who has just started using > FreeBSD. > > So what I'm presenting here is the bare bones skeleton of the tool I'm > working on, so you can taste what it will look like when I finish it. > > What works now: > > - /etc/defaults/rc.conf parsing > - GTK UI creation for both booleans and strings > - Passes efence test, so no funny pointers in there. > > TODO: > - parse and merge /etc/rc.conf > - Write callbacks > > I'm totally open to feedback and suggestions, I'm specially interested > in knowing what the community feeling about this tool is, is it useful > or do you thing is a waste of time to code such tool? What about going > one step further and add something like the admin tool in Solaris? Why make it in gtk only? I would detect if display is defined and if not run a util similar to /stand/sysinstall. Nick Rogness - Don't mind me...I'm just sniffing your packets To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message