Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Hey all, > > I've been wanting a GUI for eselect lately, so tonight I hacked up the > start of one called eselect_zenity [1]. It only works for the most > trivial modules so far -- it has to parse eselect output, so special > parsers need to be written for each type. eselect_zenity uses > (surprise!) Zenity, a shell-scripting interface to GTK+. > > I'd appreciate any patches you'd like to contribute to add functionality > or fix bugs. > > Thanks, > Donnie > > 1. http://dev.gentoo.org/~dberkholz/eselect_zenity/ > This is something really good. I've been thinking that Gentoo could use a few small GUI utilities. Items such as a notification-applet for GLSA bits that affect your system. Similiar to Ubuntu's tool when there's updates that need to be applied.
Additionally, I'd like to see all these utilities wrapped via PolicyKit rather then using gksu and kdesu applications. PolicyKit is definitely the way forward on designing custom, granular permissions and not relying on root in a GUI environment. While I haven't had much time to work on the bits, Gentopia does contain PolicyKit (though the 0.7 snapshots that appear do have some issues and you should stick to the 0.6 series). It's hopefully going to be the way forward for Gentoo to use PolicyKit. As many may know, Fedora has made this commitment and Ubuntu is starting to contribute more back and be involved a bit more. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
