I have designed a project, gvpnc, that I think would be useful to the folks out there who use GNOME and want a GNOME app to VPN into their office with. It is simple, yes, but it works well (at least on my Ubuntu 5.04). It is a front-end to the vpnc tool for Linux.
There is kvpnc, so I thought I would call it gvpnc. I really am too tied up with day job and large moonlight projects right now to post this on SourceForge, improve it, and so on. If you would like to take my weekend's worth of work and put it up on SourceForge and "own" it, I would greatly appreciate it. I designed the interface in Glade-2, saved as XML, then use a single, short, easy-to-read Python file to load this interface, display the GUI, and handle events. I thank the folks at RedHat with their control applets for leaving me enough breadcrumbs to figure out how to make this stuff. Please reply back to this forum with why you would be interested, show me your SourceForge track record, and a way to reach you. If you qualify and get this to me in time, you may be the proud recipient of the gvpnc source that I can sign over to you to own, manage, and grow. As for me, I'm happy with my copy -- it suits me well. The project is released on the GNU Artistic License, so you could list my copyright and then follow it with yours. I have no other requirements. Future improvements could be: * There's a way to make a self-executing compressed install on Linux. This might be suitable. Also, a DEB or RPM would be helpful. * Error checking for different distro's, telling people what they are missing before installation. * If there's a way to wrap all the images, python script, and Glade-2 interface into a single file that decompresses into a RAM partition, that would make a slick way to produce a smaller footprint for this application. * Support for multiple profiles, rather than just remembering the last one. * Ability to switch from TCP to UDP and/or pick the socket port. * Minimizes into a GNOME notification icon. * Warns you when 25 (or x) minutes of idle time have come up. * Integration with "festival" speech or sound events. Cheers. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
