> -----Original Message----- > From: nessus-bounces at list dot nessus dot org > [mailto: nessus-bounces at list dot nessus dot org] On Behalf Of Renaud Deraison > Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 7:53 AM > To: nessus at list dot nessus dot org > Subject: Re: What are the future plans for the Nessus Client Software > > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 06:03:42PM -0600, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > > I was wondering what is going to happen to the native client? > > At this time, I don't really know. Basically : > > - GTK is widely deployed and easy to install (at least that was true > with GTK 1.2, that's _less_ true with GTK 2.x), but the GTK guys > constantly break their own API, which makes it very hard for me > to maintain a 1.x AND 2.x compatible program which keeping useable > source code > > - Qt is a much nicer toolkit but it requires C++ and is far less > popular than GTK (especially on non-Linux systems which don't > expect to > replace Windows on the desktop anytime). > > - I don't want the Nessus client to be web based (such > solutions already > exist anyway). > > > So I guess I'll probably stick to GTK, but I hate that. I also hate to > spend too much time on the GUI.
Agreed! I'd much rather have enhancements to the back-end scanner than to the GUI. I can always run the client on another system (which is what I usually do, run NessusWX). > > > My biggest issue is the lack of scroll bars on some of the configuration > > screens. > > Are you using GTK2 ? GTK2 broke the scroll bars. I don't know how to > restore them. Yes. I am using GTK2. > > > I have an old laptop that I use as a portable vulnerability > > scanner, and I cannot run the native client because the screen only goes > > to 800x600. > > Press "alt" and click in the middle of the window to move it around. That works great! Thanks! I didn't know you could do that. -Jason _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
