Re: Proposed: gnome-nettool

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 23:36 +0100, Calum Benson wrote:
> Germán Poó Caamaño wrote:
> 
> > The same kind of vino's users, users that needs get assistance
> > to solve a problem and they must to give useful information.
> 
> There's a bit of a paradox there though-- if gnome-nettools has the same 
> target audience as vino, who's to say the admin wouldn't normally just 
> use vino to remotely run the tools on the user's machine?  Which would 
> mean you would want them to be admin-focused, not user-focused :)
> 
there are cases where the admin can't get via VNC to the user's machine.

Also, if an admin gets to the user's machine via vino, I don't think he
needs a GUI for ping/traceroute/etc. That's not the real user audience.

cheers