I agree, I think, that doing the configuration via ncurses would be a step backwards. People who are not familiar with *nix are most likely not going to be familiar with managing their computer through text (curses or not) interfaces.
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Joel B. Mohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 10:13:09AM -0600, Jason Grout wrote: > > Now, for the ncurses part. It seems like it would be very, very nice to > > have a minimal admin menu using ncurses or newt (with the python snack > > module) or dialog. Each of these has a python module, so hopefully it > > should be fairly easy. I've never done any text-based GUI programming, > > but I'm willing to try to whip up something. Are there any experts here > > that could give some advice about what to use or how to do it (or whip > > something up even faster)? It seems that an interface that at least has > > the options to create a remote ssh account, set up sage to start on > > bootup, and set the networking information for the box (DHCP or a static > > address) would answer some of the issues above. In the future, we could > > add to the menu and keep things simple for non-unix people. > > Wouldn't it be much easier to program and use if the vmware image would > start a > web server (presumably something from twisted) and provide control panel from > the default IP address? All of these configuration things (which don't > involve > vmware player) are quite doable from a web interface. This is would fit in > to > the sage web interface idea and also be quite similar to the things that > anyone > needs to know to set up any old router that they buy for their home network. > > All you have to do then is start the image in vmware player, wait a suitable > period of time, load up your web-browser and go to http://192.168.x.x. > > -- > Joel > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
