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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Not in the face! (Introducing myself)
From:       "Gary L. Greene Jr." <greeneg () phoenuxos ! com>
Date:       2006-08-15 23:34:48
Message-ID: 200608151934.48575.greeneg () phoenuxos ! com
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On Tuesday 15 August 2006 05:16, Vivek Rai wrote:
> Hi Ross,
>
> I am working on developing an "internet Configuration Wizard" for linux
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/netconfwizard)
>
> This aims to
> 1) get inputs for a diverse type of internet connection options in a
> central place, and in a step by step manner
> 2) Handle advices/(and automatic configuration, if possible) of devices
> like winmodem, wireless lan, DSL card.
> 3) have a "Plugin" based approach for inputs that can have many variations
> ( e.g. propreitry authentication for cable modems)
>
> Note that the wizard is just the part that seeks user inputs, and stores
> them into various files. I am also hoping to do a kicker applet (resusing
> what we can from http://freshmeat.net/projects/apcon/), and I can surely do
> with some help on that.
>
> If this interests you, let me know, and we can take it further.
>
> Cheers,
> Vivek

I'd recommend you look at knetworkconf which already does this. The reason I 
say this isn't because your app isn't a good idea ( a wizard UI ), but 
because there are a lot of distribution specific aspects to networking that 
most people don't take into consideration. Unfortunately this is the one 
aspect of GNU/Linux which is very fragmented. Also, if you want far 
distribution on other UNIX-like OS' you need to abstract away the other ways 
of doing networking on them too..... You get the point. :)

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