From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Oct 5 01:39:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA02812 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 01:39:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from xcf.berkeley.edu (scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA02807 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 01:39:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nordwick@xcf.berkeley.edu) Received: (qmail 816 invoked from network); 5 Oct 1998 08:40:33 -0000 Received: from ip40.san-francisco22.ca.pub-ip.psi.net (HELO yasmeen) (38.28.60.40) by scam.xcf.berkeley.edu with SMTP; 5 Oct 1998 08:40:33 -0000 Message-ID: <003901bdf03a$de8772b0$283c1c26@yasmeen.citycom.com> From: "Jason Nordwick" To: "Gilad Rom" , Subject: Re: Graphical Desktop for FreeBSD. Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 01:33:45 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: Gilad Rom >Hi, > >In the past couple of weeks i have been working on a little >project that serves as a graphical front end to pkg_create, >For the FreeBSD X contest, To make it a little easier for >people to create themes for that contest. > >It is based on GTK+, A very nice GUI toolkit for X, >And I was thinking about a more extensive project, >Like a set of graphical tools/front ends to the various >FreeBSD - Specific tools, like CVSup or PPP. > >Since the X Contest aims to bring a Default Desktop to the >basic FreeBSD installation, as in Installing X with a Default >Configuration, not with twm as default, It would be nice >to include other easy to use, graphical applications >that will share a constant look and feel and will make >newbies alot more comfortable with FreeBSD. Sure, this idea >isnt new in any case, but still, this is something We are lacking >and i really think this could change the way people look at >FreeBSD as a desktop Operating System, or even as a better way >to introduce it, In general. > >If anyone has any comments on that, Please do reply. > Is this along the lines of Linuxconf? I think that they have the right idea in some respects that it can be run over a telnet session, using an ANSI terminal. I was actually going to install RH5.1 this week just to see what Linux has that is so great compared to FBSD that I am always hearing about. I think that there needs to be a unified interface for all system administration, notably: /etc/sysconfig (I cant remember the new name for it). ppp pkg_* and ports Just these things alone would go very far in reducing the entry cost of FBSD. >Bye, Gilad. Jay -- 4.4 > 98 http://www.xcf.berkeley.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message