Hello OpenVAS Users, one of the items discussed at OpenVAS DevCon #4 was about wether it makes sense to continue the development of the Greenbone Security Desktop (GSD) which is a platform-portable Qt-based desktop application with support or local languages.
The general experience and agreement was that the GSD received only very little interest and compared to the effort of maintenance this looked pretty much out of balance. The bugs and problems of GSD surely have added to this, but we believe that the web browser became the most wanted graphical user interface for most users. The vast majority of users today is using the GSA, the CLI command or their own OMP clients. We discussed whether an App for Android etc. might be a good idea as a replacement. We are open to this idea but also here the number of voices asking for this is very very low so far. So, the development team decided to drop GSD from OpenVAS-7 on. The two special features of the GSD, dashboard and local language support are on the feature list for GSA of OpenVAS-7 now. Of course GSD code is there and if anyone like to continue the development we'd very much appreciate it. All the best Jan -- Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner | ++49-541-335084-0 | http://www.greenbone.net/ Greenbone Networks GmbH, Neuer Graben 17, 49074 Osnabrück | AG Osnabrück, HR B 202460 Geschäftsführer: Lukas Grunwald, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner _______________________________________________ Openvas-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wald.intevation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openvas-discuss
