Re: GNOME and PPP - suggestions for way forward

[bratsche dfw net]

gnome-ppp was designed with shell scripting in mind. Jay wrote a
command-line interface for it, but I've never used it. I'd be curious to
know how well it works, if any of you use it. I'm working on a newer
method for all of GNOME's ppp links to be able to determine which accounts
are dialed into, so that you could use gnome-ppp-cmd to dial into your PPP
account from outside of X, but then later on you get into X.. so instead
of pulling up an xterm to shutdown your link, you could use any gnome-ppp
dialer to disconnect.

Cody

On Sun, 30 May 1999, Tom Gilbert wrote:

> Now, if the PPP-dialer applet had the facility/option to run a
> shell-script or two, instead of using its built-in configurations, and to
> run in the panel with a tiny footprint and show basic stats.... Then you'd
> be talking.
> 
> Cheers guys,
> 
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> On Sat, 29 May 1999 bratsche@dfw.net wrote:
> 
> ->
> ->The PPP Dialer applet that comes with gnome-core has been removed for the
> ->next release. Does the Modem Lights applet have any uses other than
> ->dialing into PPP shells? I've never seen this applet.
> ->
> ->There is a new PPP dialer applet that is distributed in the gnome-network
> ->package, starting with version 1.0.2. It has some of the properties of the
> ->applet you described.
> ->
> ->Your suggestions for the statistics is appreciated also. This is something
> ->that is planned to be added sometime I think.
> ->
> ->Thanks,
> ->  Cody
> ->
> --------------------SNIP--------------------
> 
> ->On Sat, 29 May 1999, James Green wrote:
> ->
> ->> Dear all,
> ->> 
> ->> I've been playing around with the ppp and modem progs that come with
> ->> gnome. I want to quickly congratulate those who did gnome-ppp - it worked
> ->> first time, unlike other scripts and setup-tools that give failure notices
> ->> from those in #linuxhelp.
> ->> 
> ->> Now, it seems bizarre to have THREE (count 'em) apps/utils to perform
> ->> modem/ppp operations. Could we not get rid of modem_lights and PPP-Applet
> ->> and just expand gnome-ppp (it works, why break it?)?
> ->> 
> ->> I propose (and I have no idea what's in CVS, i'm using the latest
> ->> stable tarballs):
> ->> 
> ->> - Gnome-PPP should be like the DUN in Windows95 in that it is available
> ->>   both as an application and as a menu-driven system from the panel.
> ->> 
> ->> - Get rid of modem_lights and PPP Applet
> ->> 
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> 
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