Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 09:53:38 HST From: osp@aloha.com To: Jean-Paul Natola <jnatola@familycareintl.org>, "'Warren Block'" <wblock@wonkity.com>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: user friendliest gui Message-ID: <201005111953.o4BJrbmC017444@yoda.pixi.com>
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On Tue, 11 May 2010 18:49:51 +0000 Jean-Paul Natola <jnatola@familycareintl.org> wrote: > For virus/malware > > Sorry bout that > > -----Original Message----- > From: Warren Block [mailto:wblock@wonkity.com] > Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 2:49 PM > To: Jean-Paul Natola > Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List > Subject: Re: user friendliest gui > > On Tue, 11 May 2010, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: > > > I'm planning on setting up a workstation in our library for the SOLE > > purpose of scanning flash drives. > > What do you mean by "scanning flash drives"? Scanning for files, > viruses, images, what? To anser your question, I prefer Gnome. See http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/ as well as some of my notes at http://wiki.openslate.net/ Having said that, it sounds like your application does not require all that special gnomieness. Understand that installing and maintaining Gnome is a large project all it's own. If you don't need it, why bother? Consider just installing x.org and a nice window manager like sawfish or blackbox. See http://xwinman.org/ and poke around in /usr/ports/x11-wm on your FreeBSD system. If the world were perfect I would tell you to install Squeak and develop what you need in smalltalk. I love Squeak, but I cannot say how effective it would be at providing a GUI to whatever command line drive scanner you intend to use. You can easily customize the basic configuration (called an image) to eliminate what you do not require. http://www.squeak.org/ Another way to go would be my second most favorite language, tcl/tk. Easy to do the command line interface, but a lot more utilitarian than Squeak. http://www.tcl.tk/ What happens when a bug is detected? Do sirens go off? Steel doors slam down at all entrances? Gary Dunn Open Slate Project
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