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So - yast2-gtk is ported to gtk3 which means that (with master
gtk3 compiled with --enable-broadway, and
GDK_BACKEND=broadway exported, and running
/usr/lib/YaST2/bin/y2base disk gtk as root, and enabling
websockets
it is posible to use yast2 in your browser quite nicely. Clearly missing a chunk
of rather crucial authentication, app-selection, and glue-logic but hey.
I recorded a small screencast to show this stuff: (webm source: sw, disk)
This is all based on Alex Laarson's sexy broadway work, and of course Ricardo Cruz' yast2-gtk heroism, and Duncan Mac-Vicar's gtk3 port. Performance will no doubt be worse from a remote connection, and better when not screen-recording.
Clearly this is never going to look as pretty as the proper webyast stuff, but - on the other hand, it is an extremely cheap and easy way to make the existing, full-feature yast2 tools web-enabled with virtually no effort at all.
Vincent points out that with broadway enabled by default, that when the latest yast2-gtk gets checked in, this should work out of the box in openSUSE:Factory, modulo it not being a great idea to allow un-authenticated access to tools running as root over the web.
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Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)