From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 28 06:25:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA10961 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 28 Feb 1996 06:25:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA10838 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 1996 06:21:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.6.12/8.6.12) id QAA06819; Wed, 28 Feb 1996 16:21:18 +0200 Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 16:21:17 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: Mike Eggleston cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: xforms maintenance tools (was Re: Tcl/Tk sysinstall) In-Reply-To: <9602281343.AA15249@sys8.wfc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 28 Feb 1996, Mike Eggleston wrote: > >>>>> "Ollivier" == Ollivier Robert writes: > > > It seems that Jerry Kendall said: > >> Now I am using the xforms library and the fdesign gui builder... It > >> looks great and works very well. Have decided to write some other > >> utilities > > > Erm, do you really must use xforms ? Some of the things I saw made > > with it were awful, especially menus... (tried XFmail). The > > interest of dialog is that it runs on the console _and_ under X11 > > (well in an xterm but it is better than only X11). > > Why not have a html/cgi based manager. That would run under lynx, > chimera, mosaic, etc., for local and remote administration. > > Mike > How about security? I don't feel I would like that kind of management tool... Sander