YaST2-GTK

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Contents 1 Description 2 Screenshots 3 Download 4 Contact

[edit] Description

YaST2-GTK is a graphical user interface GUI plugin for YaST2 using GTK+ as the render engine. (YaST is the setup tool from Suse.) The effort was started by Michael Meeks, and taken off as Google's Summer of Code project assigned to Ricardo Cruz.

[edit] Screenshots

The starter YaST2 screen:

All the tools differ little, with the notable exception of the software manager and the online updater.

Screenshot of the software manager:

Screenshots of the Users, Partitioner and Time tools, respectively:

[edit] Download

yast2-gtk is shipped by opensuse and can thus be installed by issuing:

sudo zypper install yast2-gtk

If you'd like to try the development version:

svn checkout http://svn.opensuse.org/svn/yast/trunk/gtk/ yast2-gtk
cd yast2-gtk
make && sudo make install

You might be required to install the dependencies as specified by the README file. Don't be afraid of installing it; as a mere plugin, the install procedure involves only the copy of a file to your system.

[edit] Contact

To report bugs, or suggest improvements, use Novell bugzilla. Choose YaST2 as the component, and mention the keyword "gtk" in the title.

For discussion, drop an email over mailto:yast2-gtk@googlegroups.com. Subscribe at http://groups.google.com/group/yast2-gtk). General questions regarding yast should be posted at: mailto:yast-devel@opensuse.org.

For technical information, refer to the HACKING file.