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

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 :-)

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

Nessus in Olde Englisc here we come!

> - 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...

> 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.

dave

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