Regedit like GUI

[Joseph Lewis]

Hi Jelmer,

Thanks for your reply, are either of these (to your knowledge) still open?
It does look like someone went through and removed the project I mentioned
before.  I assume that they can be combined to produce a more robust project
design.  I'm most interested in Python as my c/c++ is a little limited and
I'm sure you don't want it in your codebase :)
Extension of the GTK+ frontends

There are a couple of GTK+ frontends for Samba4 (see
SambaGtk<https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/SambaGtk>).
These are very limited at the moment but you could work on expanding them
and further integrating them with GNOME. Language: C or Python

   - Difficulty: Easy
   - Language(s): Python, perhaps C
   - Possible mentors:
JelmerVernooij<https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/JelmerVernooij>

Setup / provision GUI for Samba (and OpenChange)

Setting up Samba and OpenChange currently requires running quite a lot of
command line utilities. It should be easy for even a junior system
administrator to set up Samba as a Domain Controller, RODC and general
server.

The windows equivalent tool is dcpromo.exe, and while you may not want/need
to copy it directly, it does provide a reasonable basis for establishing
what this tool should be able to provide (in terms of outcomes).

Some initial work (using PyQt4) is available at
http://gitorious.org/samba-openchange-gui-tools/samba-openchange-gui-setupbut
working with that is not essential to this task.

   - Difficulty: Easy
   - Language(s): Python
   - Possible mentors: Brad Hards, probably others.

Cheers,
   Joe


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On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> wrote:

> Hi Joseph,
>
> On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 09:46 -0600, Joseph Lewis wrote:
> > I'm interested in working for you during GSOC, and this project struck my
> > fancy:
> >
> > Create a GUI like regedit
> >
> > The idea is to have a frontend like "regedit" to edit a registry on
> remote
> > machines. The easiest way would be to write such a GUI in python using
> pyQt
> > and the Samba4 winreg python bindings.
> >
> http://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git;a=blob;f=source4/scripting/python/examples/winreg.py;h=80b48ecfd7894022202b60173c28a9775d9d7daf;hb=master
> > Difficulty: Easy
> > Language(s): Python
> > Possible mentors: Jelmer Vernooij and Andreas Schneider
> >
> > I've worked with pyGTK, wxPython, and Tcl/Tk before so learning and
> > implementing pyQt shouldn't be that difficult.  The project itself seems
> > fairly straightforward, but I think it could benefit if you could import
> > .reg files from the local machine, and possibly save all changes to a
> local
> > .reg file that could then be used to apply the changes to multiple
> computers
> > (almost like macros).  I also believe that a number of default
> "favorites"
> > could be quite handy, and or auto generating favorites from commonly used
> > keys, what do you think?
> I'm not sure how current this project is anymore, during the last summer
> of code another student worked on gregedit, which is part of Samba-GTK.
> This seems to work reasonably well.
>
> Are there perhaps any other projects you're interested in?
>
> Unfortunately I don't have access to the wiki at the moment :-/ Could
> somebody with access to the wiki perhaps clean out some of the obsolete
> projects?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jelmer
>