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