pokey

[Ivo Timmermans]

Oi,

Bad timing of course, but the following is NOT an april's fools joke:

I am working on a GTK+ interface to tinc, which should become an admin
tool for the VPN that your tinc is a part of.  Its name is pokey, from
"pointy & clicky" -- and it is, of course, a reference to Pokey the
Penguin.

Right now it doesn't do much beside gathering and showing information
to you.  I created a screenshot[1], so that you can get an impression
of what it does right now.

The code is a HACK.  It sucks GOAT ASSES.  It is essentially a copy of
the entire tinc source, and crippled so that you can't use it to
send/receive any data over it -- intentionally, because it is an admin
tool and not a graphical version of tincd.  It does not comply to any
GTK or GNOME standard.  The menu is there, but it does nothing.
Events aren't handled.  You must force a redraw before you can see the
graph drawing (eg. by switching virtual workspaces).  You must use
SIG{QUIT,TERM} to exit.  Most widget sizes are fixed.  You can't
change the font or colors.  The graph is always drawn in a circle,
alphabetically, using a fixed radius.  Changes in the layout aren't
handled.

But because it is a copy, you can connect to your vpn exactly the same
way any other tinc daemon would, using public/private keys.  You can
use the same commandline switches, including -n and -d.

For those of you who still want to try it, you can get the code
here[2].  It expects to be put in tinc/src/pokey, and you probably
need to edit configure.in and src/Makefile.am (add SUBDIRS = pokey)
and run autogen.sh (from CVS) again.

1. http://www.schaapje.org/misc/pokey-7.png
2. http://tinc.nl.linux.org/pokey/


	Ivo

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