[Announce] firmware-tools GUI now available

[Michael E Brown]

    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devices are out of date.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