[Announce] firmware-tools GUI now available

[Johannes Engel]

Michael E Brown schrieb:
>     I am pleased to announce that firmware-tools now has a GUI tool for
> doing system inventory and firmware updates.
>
>     The executable is called 'inventory_firmware_gui' and is available
> in firmware-tools version 1.5.1 and higher.
>
>     The GUI has been developed using Glade and pyglade. It is developed
> on my Fedora 7 system, but should run on RHEL4/5. I have not yet tested
> on SLES, but it should run there as well. The entire GUI weighs in at
> less than 1000 lines of code, which 
>
>     I intend to send a note to linux-poweredge for this later this week.
> Please bang on it and let me know if you see any issues.
>
> Known bugs:
>     -- the "About" dialog box crashes on RHEL4
>     -- if you click the 'close' decoration before the window has fully
> initialized, it crashes.
>
> Future enhancements:
>     -- add status icons to the update firmware status page
>     -- add a spinner to the update status page so you can watch progress
>     -- add more colors to the main inventory page so you can see which
> devices are out of date.
>     -- others as requested/suggested.
>
> --
> Michael Brown
Thanks a lot for your announcement, Michael. But where can I find the
suitable download? The respective folders upto 1.5.3 seem to be empty...

Greetings, Johannes