From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jan 11 02:56:30 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA14982 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 02:56:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA14975 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 02:56:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.10 #1) id 0zzf0U-00012d-00; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 10:55:40 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id KAA02496; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 10:55:06 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com (gppsun4) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA05426; Mon, 11 Jan 99 10:55:04 GMT Message-Id: <3699D87C.F866A42A@uk.radan.com> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 10:54:53 +0000 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en-GB Mime-Version: 1.0 To: "Brian W. Buchanan" Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A GUI administration tool for FreeBSD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brian W. Buchanan wrote: > > I've just put up an alpha release of my GUI admin tool for FreeBSD. > I'd appreciate it if some folks could take a look at it and give me > some feedback. Bug reports, comments, suggestions, praise, and > criticism are all very welcome. :) > Excellent!. I really like this. The only part that is really of use to me, as my system is standalone, is the package manager. Actually I had decided that this would be a good (i.e. useful) project for me to do as a learning exercise for GUI programming. Sigh, guess I'll have to think of something else now :-(. A couple of things I'd like to suggest as enhancements: 1. A third pane that has 2 columns; one showing the dependencies of the selected package and the other listing which other (installed) packages depend on the selected one. 2. I like the feature of being able to copy the INDEX file from the CD to the HD and browse it, however there is a limitation here in that the packages are split across 2 CDs, and they are a different 2 in 2.2.8 than in 2.2.7. When I go looking for a package 9 times out of 10 it's on the 2nd CD I look at. How about being able to copy _both_ INDEX's to the HD & call them INDEX. and have the software merge the 2 to give a unified list and somewhere in the window display which CD the currently selected package is on. Finally one really minor gripe, but it would be nice if it were fixed. When the package manager window first opens you have to double-click on a line in the top pane to get the details displayed, after that single clicking works. Could this be easily fixed so that the first selection only requires a single click? Thanks for your efforts, and don't forget to let us know if/when new versions come out. -- Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath, Avon, England. Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message