From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from 87-104-106-3-dynamic-customer.profibernet.dk ([87.104.106.3]:58873 "EHLO kernel.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756533Ab1JNNKx (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Oct 2011 09:10:53 -0400 Message-ID: <4E9834DC.9000200@kernel.dk> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:10:52 +0200 From: Jens Axboe MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: new developments References: <4E8967BC.3050404@kernel.dk> <201110051415.42260.ms@teamix.de> <4E8C4BE3.10601@kernel.dk> In-Reply-To: <4E8C4BE3.10601@kernel.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: fio-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: fio@vger.kernel.org To: Martin Steigerwald Cc: fio@vger.kernel.org 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