This is one for the developer's list. I think it is a great idea! A configuration editor with 'smarts' would eliminate 70% of the traffic the user list requests help on (my guesstimation of course.)
The downside is there are so many other worthy features it will take time or a champion to pull this together. Any takers in developer land to explore this? Erich On Apr 24, 2007, at 11:07 AM, Stephan Wendl wrote: > > I am sure that this has come up several times. But I like to add a > twist at looking at this problem. > > > The design of a GUI for bacula may revolve arround interfacing with > the dameons. I was wondering > if just designing a GUI for config file modification might simply > suffice, i.e. a config file editor with > the smarts of syntax checking and linking of all the resources in > the main bacula-dir.conf file. > > Most of the cfg files do not change much or at all. The file most > often modified is the bacula-dir.conf > > It would much easier to just concentrate on that task rather than > designing a GUI which interacts with the > dir daemon. > > Over time this GUI might be more complete, but being able to modify > the main cfg graphically would be > major contribution. > > > -sww > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
