Re: Ann: Plan for major GUI re-design and other improvements of nessus

Hi David,

On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 07:45:11PM +0100, David Lodge wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 16:48, Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote:
> > The core features planned are:
> > - I18N (gettext) for client and server including full
> >   translation into German (but excluding a translation
> >   of the plugins for now)
> 
> Please; please allow more than just 'de' and American i18n modules - I'm
> getting sick of programs only written in wrong English :-)

with gettext technology you can apply various translations even
various styles of english. And various styles of german ;-)

> Is this going to interface with one of the other translation projects --
> such as the GTP or the TP to maintain the .po files?

You mean the GNOME Translation Project?

Well, I think it will work as for many other projects: translations will
be maintained in CVS of nessus. I am not really a friend of giving
translation tasks to a non-expert i18n-Team. I have some bad experience
with the security-relevant KDE translations where german terms have been
mixed up. I better don't think about the other 40+ languages ...

> > - re-design the client GUI and extend it with e.g. menus,
> >   toolbar and tree-structure for input/output data.
> > - migrate to GTK2
> > - make sure the client works on Microsoft Windows as well
> > - extended report generation (PDF)
> 
> Why not just do a web version? This would provide better flexibility
> from more than just GTK and Windows - and would allow me to use lynx
> from my A&P laptop...

A web-browser based user interface simply has not the same usability
as a desktop application. However, web-based solutions are not a bad
idea but out of scope of our project.

> > Furthermore we plan to create another component that we call
> > SLAD, Security Local Auditing Daemon. SLAD can be installed
> > on GNU/Linux systems and run tools like John-the-Ripper,
> > chkrootkit, virus scanners or tripwire. A module for nessusd
> > will make the management of this available for the nessus
> > client.
> 
> I've often thought of writing my own version of this idea, but one needs
> to ensure that the scope is good and it is extendible so that easy
> checks can be added for, for example, patches, dodgy files, user
> settings.
> 
> What OSes is SLAD going to support? Just having Linux is not all that
> useful.

It will only be GNU/Linux platforms we can test within the scope
of our project, namely Debian, ReadHat and SUSE.

Best

	Jan

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