On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 04:51:03PM -0300, Fabio Rafael da Rosa wrote: > Hi.. Hello! > I am new here. My name is Fabio Rafael, but f2r is simple. > I'am writing a graphic gtk2 program to manage alternatives system (like > update-alternatives). My primary target was user who don't link console, > or don't know how to use this. update-alternatives is simple, but some > time can be tricky. And, looking to debian-desktop project, this can be > a good tool . > So, I'm writting here to see what you thing about a program like that. > It's just some pieces of code that don't do anything util until now, but > when I finish my university exams, I ll have more time to finish a 0.1 > version.. :P > Suggestions?
I was actually planning to do something similar. I'm the author/maintainer for the configure-debian package, which as of right now is just a frontend to dpkg-reconfigure. I'm planning on expanding it to a series of frontends, all of which use debconf as their UI. The current configure-debian was a sort of proof of concept for the idea of doing this. I'm working on a frontend to update-rc.d and invoke-rc.d right now, but the next project I was planning to tackle was an update-alternatives frontend. If you're interested in collaborating on this, write me back and we can get started on it. I'd much appreciate some help. If you want to see an example of how it would work, take a look at configure-debian as it is. - David Nusinow
