Need To Transfer Project Ownership -- gvpnc

[googlemike]

I have designed a project, gvpnc, that I think would be useful to the
folks out there who use GNOME and want a GNOME app to VPN into their
office with. It is simple, yes, but it works well (at least on my
Ubuntu 5.04). It is a front-end to the vpnc tool for Linux.

There is kvpnc, so I thought I would call it gvpnc.

I really am too tied up with day job and large moonlight projects right
now to post this on SourceForge, improve it, and so on. If you would
like to take my weekend's worth of work and put it up on SourceForge
and own it, I would greatly appreciate it.

I designed the interface in Glade-2, saved as XML, then use a single,
short, easy-to-read Python file to load this interface, display the
GUI, and handle events. I thank the folks at RedHat with their control
applets for leaving me enough breadcrumbs to figure out how to make
this stuff.

Please reply back to this forum with why you would be interested, show
me your SourceForge track record, and a way to reach you. If you
qualify and get this to me in time, you may be the proud recipient of
the gvpnc source that I can sign over to you to own, manage, and grow.
As for me, I'm happy with my copy -- it suits me well. The project is
released on the GNU Artistic License, so you could list my copyright
and then follow it with yours. I have no other requirements.

Future improvements could be:

* There's a way to make a self-executing compressed install on Linux.
This might be suitable. Also, a DEB or RPM would be helpful.

* Error checking for different distro's, telling people what they are
missing before installation.

* If there's a way to wrap all the images, python script, and Glade-2
interface into a single file that decompresses into a RAM partition,
that would make a slick way to produce a smaller footprint for this
application.

* Support for multiple profiles, rather than just remembering the last
one.

* Ability to switch from TCP to UDP and/or pick the socket port.

* Minimizes into a GNOME notification icon.

* Warns you when 25 (or x) minutes of idle time have come up.

* Integration with festival speech or sound events.

Cheers.

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Tough Spawn Problem

[googlemike]

I'm trying to use Python and PyGTK + Glade, along with Bash. I want to
make a GUI for the Linux vpnclient command-line tool. (Look for
linux-vpnclient.tar.gz on the Internet if you are curious.) Anyway,
this vpnclient tool connects to VPN and then stays locked like that
while the VPN connection is running. What I was trying to do was either
spawn it and then use another command-line tool to check on its status,
or shell the process and redirect all its output text to the GTK
textbox in the GUI. Here's the problems I found with that:

* Spawn - This seems to spawn the process okay, but when the vpnclient
connection is finally loaded, it holds the process and the GUI cannot
return to being responsive -- it locks the GUI up, essentially. I tried
os.NO_WAIT and os.DETACH but os.NO_WAIT was no solution and os.DETACH
only works in the documentation, not in my version of Python.

* Shell - This seems to do the same thing as spawn but instead of
sending output to a console, it sends the output into a console-less
space. Then, because the VPN connection is locked-in, it also holds the
GUI up and hangs it.

I tried using the   operator but that seemed to have no effect in
fixing this problem.

What's the trick?

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