Re: [system-tools] CVS Branched

[Carlos Garnacho <carlosg gnome org>]

Hi Tiago!,

On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 12:49 +0000, Tiago Cogumbreiro wrote:
> I have an application for dialing PPPoE, PPPoA and PPPTP applications,
> you might find it interesting, here is the link:
> 
> http://s1x.homelinux.net/projects/gnome-ppx
> 
> The PPPoE support already works, as i use it every day, but it's
> obviously a little deviant from GST concept/objective.

Thank you very much! while I can learn the concept it's really OK enough
for me :)

	Carlos

> 
> Take care,
> 
> Tiago Cogumbreiro
> 
> On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 19:04, Carlos Garnacho wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Fixing bugs is fun, but even more is coding new features, and even more
> > when one runs out of bugs to fix for 1.0
> > 
> > So I've just branched the CVS for developing on new features/tools for
> > 1.2 (the branch name is development-for-1-2) and here are some thoughts
> > about the features that I'd like to work on:
> > 
> > General changes
> > ===============
> > we clearly need a friendlier way of handling passwords for not having to
> > type it every time we run a tool, there are several options:
> > 
> > - Using gnome-keyring: a password can be stored only for the current
> > session, so we could use this feature for asking password only if it
> > wasn't already stored in the session for this user
> > - Using an "unlock" button a-la MacOS: it could allow to preview data as
> > a normal user, but unblock the GUI if you're wishing to make changes. It
> > makes the password dialog less intrusive, but has some issues (i.e.:
> > some config files are not readable by normal users, so the GUI would
> > show up empty)
> > - A mixture of these both
> > 
> > Users tool
> > ==========
> > It's quite nice as it is, but it could be even nicer if we would make
> > more friendly the groups stuff. My idea was to put an <allows_to> tag to
> > the groups so we could make people think "ok, I need this user to access
> > cdrom and modem" instead "ok, I need to add this user to cdrom,dip and
> > dialout"
> > 
> > Another random idea provided was to allow the backends to modify LDAP as
> > well as local passwd/shadow/group files, all this handled as transparent
> > as possible
> > 
> > Time tool
> > =========
> > Right now it configures NTP servers, it could be also nice to configure
> > NTP clients with the same config, so we can have our local computer and
> > our whole network in time :)
> > 
> > Services tool
> > =============
> > it could be nice adding support for parsing inetd conf, those are
> > services that start/stop on boot time, so the concept is the same
> > 
> > Network tool
> > ============
> > This one is worth of many changes:
> > 
> > - We need to ease the access to the profiles, right now the file in
> > which the profiles are stored is only accessible by root, which is
> > secure, but at least we need a way of letting users know which profiles
> > exist without being root, this has obvious advantages
> > - instead of letting the tool configure eth0,1,2... interfaces, even
> > when they doesn't exist, provide already a fixed list of existing
> > interfaces, which can be already configured or not, it would require a
> > XML change, but would bring lots of advantages and portability fixes
> > - Make the tool more location/profile oriented
> > - adding PPPoE support would be really nice, but I don't even know
> > anyone that has this kind of connection, so I need external help for
> > supporting this
> > 
> > Disks tool
> > ==========
> > Carlos García Campos is already working on this, it's a tool for
> > accessing disks, formatting, etc, it's quite alpha, but it's progressing
> > nicely
> > 
> > Shares tool
> > ===========
> > AFAIK There's no integrated and friendly tool in the GNOME world for
> > sharing files through SMB/NFS, and a tool like this fits perfectly in
> > the GST concept. It could be integrated with nautilus for just right
> > clicking and sharing :)
> > 
> > So it's all I've thought, any opinion/help/code/whatever will be very
> > welcome
> > 
> > 	any opinion? :)
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