[tor-commits] r24266: {website} Low priority project idea for an arm gui. (website/trunk/getinvolved/en)

[Damian Johnson]

Author: atagar
Date: 2011-02-26 02:49:26 +0000 (Sat, 26 Feb 2011)
New Revision: 24266

Modified:
   website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml
Log:
Low priority project idea for an arm gui.



Modified: website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml
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--- website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml	2011-02-25 05:17:40 UTC (rev 24265)
+++ website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml	2011-02-26 02:49:26 UTC (rev 24266)
@@ -388,7 +388,8 @@
     
     <p>
     <b>Project Ideas:</b><br />
-    <i><a href="#armClientMode">Client Mode Use Cases for Arm</a></i>
+    <i><a href="#armClientMode">Client Mode Use Cases for Arm</a></i><br />
+    <i><a href="#armGui">GUI for Arm</a></i>
     </p>
     
     <a id="project-orbot"></a>
@@ -1206,6 +1207,38 @@
     </p>
     </li>
     
+    <a id="armGui"></a>
+    <li>
+    <b>GUI for Arm</b>
+    <br>
+    Priority: <i>Low</i>
+    <br>
+    Effort Level: <i>High</i>
+    <br>
+    Skill Level: <i>Medium</i>
+    <br>
+    Likely Mentors: <i>Damian</i>
+    <p>
+    Arm has several unique features, some of the most interesting being its
+    connection listing (correlating netstat results against the Tor consensus)
+    and configuration editor (a quick method for editing Tor's config, with
+    information pulled from the control port and man page). However, since arm
+    is a command line controller it's of limited appeal to certain sets of
+    users. This project would be to build a GTK or Qt frontend for the
+    controller, providing similar features set but with a windowed interface.
+    </p>
+    
+    <p>
+    The vast majority of arm's more interesting functionality lies in its
+    backend <a
+    href="https://svn.torproject.org/svn/arm/trunk/src/util/">utilities</a>, so
+    there should be little to no work decoupling the CLI from its backend.
+    Instead, this project would mostly be UI hacking and experimentation,
+    trying different interfaces to find something that's elegant and simple,
+    but matches the information found in the current terminal application.
+    </p>
+    </li>
+    
     <!--
     <li>
     <b>Help with independent Tor client implementations</b>