RE: GPPP applet

[Cody Russell <bratsche dfw net>]

There's really not all that much duplication of effort. KPPP and gnome-ppp
are both based on Jay Painter's gnome-ppp. So a lot of the core code is
very similar. KPPP runs as setuid root, and I believe Jay had some reason
for not doing this with gnome-ppp so it has remained this way. The rest
is, of course, differences in the GUI code which is unavoidable.

The main thing that gnome-ppp needs in order to become more usable is to
be able to do all configuration from within the GUI. As it is now, you
have to edit a file as root in your /etc/ppp directory. This is something
that I think I can fix pretty soon. Michael K. Johnson posted some
information on a package that Red Hat has (I forgot what it is, I haven't
read all about it yet), and there's gsu in the gnome-utils package. With
one of those I think it will be possible to have gnome-ppp prompt the user
for root password and then automatically write the data to the secure
files.

Cody

On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Roger Vaughn wrote:

> If you want just plain ol' minimize, sure.  Kppp behaves like any other
> GNOME window - shows up in the pager etc.  If you mean docking it into the
> panel and other funky things KDE does, then no, at least not with the
> current binaries. (I use the gurulabs builds)
> 
> As far as duplication of effort, absolutely, I agree.  I use kppp mostly
> 'cause I don't want to wait for gnome-ppp to catch up.  I think what was
> meant by "porting" kppp was moving it from QT to GTK+.  And yes, I run both
> at the same time, too.
> 
> I begin to wonder if we need an abstraction layer around the widget kit.
> And then how many competing abstractions would we see..... ;-)
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tom Gilbert [mailto:gilbertt@tomgilbert.freeserve.co.uk]
> > Sent: Thursday, August 19, 1999 4:31 PM
> > To: gnome-list@gnome.org
> > Subject: Re: GPPP applet
> >
> >
> > * jcromwell@us.ibm.com (jcromwell@us.ibm.com) wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > I was running KPPP under gnome for a while, but as I recall I
> > abandoned it
> > > because I couldn't minimize it into the gnome panel. Am I mistaken here?
> > >
> > > As far as the duplication of work between KDE and GNOME, I don't
> > > think anyone would disagree with you about it being a bad thing, but it
> > > does seem to be the norm...
> > >
> > > regards - Jon
> >
> > In some cases norm!=good...
> >
> > Minimising to panel works for me. (CVS e from this morning, CVS Gnome
> > from this morning)
> >
> > Tom.
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