From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Martin Steigerwald <ms@teamix.de>
Cc: fio@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: new developments
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:10:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E9834DC.9000200@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E8C4BE3.10601@kernel.dk>
On 2011-10-05 14:21, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>> One thing that I think would be very cool is a gtk2 frontend.
>>> Something that allows you to simply click and select options
>>> and then run the job, with graphical representation of the
>>> ETA and final output.
>>>
>>> If you have gtk development experience, or simply the desire
>>> to start this project for fio, then please do get in touch.
>>> Otherwise I'll start this myself, once I'm done with the
>>> basic frontend/backend funtionality.
>>
>> And/Or Qt ;)
>
> For sure, or Qt. I think it'd be really cool for various reasons, some
> people find it a lot easier to visually see all the options and drop
> down menus as opposed to a CLI tool. Also great for demo purposes. Like
> iometer - it's a crap tool, but the spedometer thing really works for
> demo/show purposes.
Looking over the available options, pygtk looks like the best
alternative. It's a local application, should run on Linux/Win/OSX and
the BSDs too.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-14 13:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-03 7:43 new developments Jens Axboe
2011-10-05 12:15 ` Martin Steigerwald
2011-10-05 12:21 ` Jens Axboe
2011-10-14 13:10 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2011-10-14 13:13 ` Bruce Cran
2011-10-14 13:40 ` Jens Axboe
2011-10-14 13:44 ` Bruce Cran
2011-10-14 14:07 ` Jens Axboe
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