On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 19:10, Matt Jarjoura wrote: > I'm interested in working on a config tool for easily creating complex > IPTables firewall rules. Sounds like a reasonable project to me. > I'm am not familiar with the fedora config culture, so if anyone working > on another config tool could point me in the right direction on how to go > about starting this project? In general, our config tools have traditionally been written in python and use pygtk. That's not to say other things are bad, per se, but as far as look and feel go, anything that doesn't use GTK+ isn't likely to fit in as far as widgets, etc. My thought (although I'm stealing from Havoc quite a bit here :-) on a good way to start is probably to first come up with some use cases/personas of who would use this tool and how they would use it. This will then help you to determine the common tasks so that you can design for that. Then, I'd start on some mockups and just see what people think about them and go from there. Brent is sort of heading this up I think and my have some other ideas, but that's what I think of quickly. Cheers, Jeremy