From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Oct 5 19:02:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA01996 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 19:02:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from banshee.cs.uow.edu.au (banshee.cs.uow.edu.au [130.130.188.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA01980 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 19:02:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ncb05@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au) Received: (from ncb05@localhost) by banshee.cs.uow.edu.au (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id MAA23359; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 12:02:16 +1000 (EST) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 12:02:16 +1000 (EST) From: Nicholas Charles Brawn X-Sender: ncb05@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au To: Gilad Rom cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Graphical Desktop for FreeBSD. In-Reply-To: <36184243.DCE3494B@ein-hashofet.co.il> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Gilad Rom wrote: > It is based on GTK+, A very nice GUI toolkit for X, > And I was thinking about a more extensive project, > Like a set of graphical tools/front ends to the various > FreeBSD - Specific tools, like CVSup or PPP. I agree. I believe that any serious attempt at a commercial distribution will require a lot of frontend-utilities for x - ala what Red Hat has done. The ones which first spring to mind are ones which newbies have the most trouble with, for instance: - Kernel configuration (it's simple enough now, but it could be made simpler) - Network Configuration (bringing up interfaces, etc) - Security utility(s) (enable easy maintenance of various security settings) And so on... To this end, I'm working off and on a x-frontend for ipfw, and if/when done, will start work on a kernel configuration frontend. Nick, who much prefers *real* coding :) -- Email: ncb@poboxes.com - http://www.poboxes.com/ncb Key fingerprint = DE 30 33 D3 16 91 C8 8D A7 F8 70 03 B7 77 1A 2A "When in doubt, ask someone wiser than yourself..." -unknown To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message