From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 24 7: 7:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from yello.shallow.net (yello.shallow.net [203.18.243.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D7C337B400 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 07:07:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by yello.shallow.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id EA70B2A73; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 00:05:29 +1000 (EST) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 00:05:29 +1000 From: Joshua Goodall To: Miguel Mendez Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: graphical frontend for vinum Message-ID: <20020424140529.GD86692@roughtrade.net> References: <20020424155218.B71155@energyhq.homeip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020424155218.B71155@energyhq.homeip.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 03:52:18PM +0200, Miguel Mendez wrote: > Hi hackers, > > After gainning some knowledge of UI coding when doing thefish, I've > thought of making a graphical tool for vinum. I've just installed > 5.0-DP1 on my main box and took the opportunity to use vinum for the > first time, and I must say, after having worked with Veritas VM, that I > *love* it. So, what do you guys think. I was thinking, these Solaris > guys have the graphical frontend for Veritas Volume Manager, why not us > FreeBSD users for Vinum? So far, I find it to be an excellent product > (thanks for making it Greg) and would be really pleased to make a > GTK/ncurses frontend for it. Any wishes/suggestions/ideas for it? However you present the UI, when it comes to making changes, please have it queue up the actual commands which are then visible to the sysadmin for approval, backout, single-stepping, recording etc. Way too many graphical management tools have been corrupted by the microsoft control panel &c. Joshua To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message