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A python-newt based tool would kick ass.
-jeremy
> On Mon, 8 May 2000 13:37:14 -0700, Horms wrote:
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> >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.
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> 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.
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> 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
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> "I think qmail got mad, took its ball and went home." - Steve Wills
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