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On Mon, 8 May 2000 13:37:14 -0700, Horms wrote:
>The prototype GTK GUI that was produced by myself and Raster for
>VA Linux Systems is not currently included in Ultra Monkey. However,
>in its defense I would say that GTK allows construction of a GUI,
>something that http was never designed to do.
The first release of piranha that we did had a GTK gui (Havoc still
shudders at this :). Anyway, we made the decision to deprecate it
because the GTK gui was not really relocateable (it not stateless).
Although I'm not really 100% in love with the current HTML gui, I do
like the features that it brings (like it can survive a failover while
working on the config file). The nice thing is that it is really only
editing a plain text file which means all the "guts" of piranha are
still in plain text and still controllable via command line programs.
In fact, I commonly refer to our HTML gui as a fancy VI editor. :) We
have some ideas for configurations such as building a modular structure
that allows a parsing module to be used which will allow plain text
config files, XML config files, etc. (anything, just build a parsing
module). That then leads to allowing any sort of front end tool
(python-GTK, python-newt, HTML, etc.) as long as it can bing to a few
things. This isn't done yet, but it is sort of the direction we are
thinking about heading with piranha.
Mike
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Mike Wangsmo Red Hat, Inc
"I think qmail got mad, took its ball and went home." - Steve Wills
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