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gecco
Welcome to the gecco web site
The goal of gecco (GNOME Extensible Configuration COnsole) is to provide a
central location for accessing system administration functions within the GNOME
environment.
There are currently many administration tools already in existance, with more to
come. Most of these, however, are for small and relatively minor tasks and do
not need to be stand-alone applications. The fact that these tasks are, in
reality, being addressed by separate applications makes for a more difficult
time in managing administration tools than needs to be.
gecco addresses this issue by providing a common location for the administration
'loose-ends' through the use of plugins. Plugins are, in effect, regular GNOME
applications that employ a pair of functions to interface with gecco. This
simple approach means that writing new plugins is almost identical to normal
GNOME development, with the addition of two functions. Moreover, because of
the simplicity of design, existing applications are quite easily modified to
implement the gecco API
(see PLUGIN-HOWTO for details on writing
plugins).
The plugins (which typically exist in /usr/share/gecco/plugins), are read on
startup and presented as icons within gecco. They are invoked by the standard
means of double-clicking or the use of menu items.
gecco's plugins do not otherwise have any interaction either among themselves
or with gecco itself.
gecco was designed on a
GNU/Linux
system. It is not known (yet) if it will compile cleanly on other Unix and
Unix-like systems. Ideally, gecco will function on all platforms that GNOME
can be found on, though this has not been tested.
Anyone wishing to do a little investigation in this area is welcome to do so.
Any feedback is appreciated.
Updates
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Latest Release:
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0.4.4
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Downloads Updated:
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2000/04/01
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Screenshots Updated:
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2000/04/01
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Documentation Updated:
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2000/04/01
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News Updated:
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2000/04/01
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Links Updated:
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2000/01/31
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Mailing Lists Updated:
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2000/01/09
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