RE: gnome-network improvements

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel nuclecu unam mx>]

Fox, Kevin M writes:
 > I have just ran across a cool gtk program called ethereal. It is a network
 > packet sniffer. Verry usefull. How dificult do you think it would be to port
 > it to gnome?

It depends on the level of GNOME conformance you want to achieve.

Various things to add:

	1. use GnomeApp and the gnome-app-helper routines
	   for menus and toolbars.

	2. Tag any localizable strings to support running in various
	   languages. 

	3. Add session management support.

	4. Use gnome-init and use popt (side effect of gnome-init) for 
	   using GNU standard command line options.

	5. Use GnomePropertyBox widgets for any configuration dialog
	   boxes.

	6. Ship with a help file, and topics file, hook with the help
	   system. 

	7. Use GnomeMessageBox for informative message boxes.
	
You can read more about this on the:

    gnome-libs/devel-docs/suggestions.txt

file.

Miguel.