Drakxtools Replacements

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Drakxtools is a set of scripts and modules unique to Mandriva written in Perl with GTK UI (more precisely - using own wrappers upon perl-GTK). Drakxtools development was started a dozen of years ago; however, year by year it becomes harder and harder to maintain and enhance them due to not very flexible internal structure and tons of legacy code. We believe that most of drakxtools do not satisfy modern needs and should be replaced with more convenient contemporary analogues.

Some thoughts about drakxtools replacement:

  • for many tools, there are analogues in KDE4 control center
  • ... however, some tools are really unique to Mandriva, and currently we don't have any estimates on how long will it take to develop their analogues
  • for some tools KDE analogues exists, but they are separate applications (not part of KDE control center)
  • some tools are bounded to Mandriva infrastructure (Mandriva Club accounts, wiki logins, etc.), so they should be dropped in ROSA in either case; the question is do we want to develop their analogues

The replacements for Mandriva Drakconf configurators in ROSA Marathon 2012 are listed in the table below.

Drakconf section Cmdline tool Replacement Comments
Software Management
Software Management
Access to extended maintenance mdkapplet-add-media-helper Dropped in ROSA 2012 LTS This one is valuable for MDV only
Hardware
Configure mouse and keyboard
Set up the keyboard layout keyboarddrake KDE System Settings -> "Input Devices"
Network & Internet
Manage your network devices
Network Center draknetcenter KDE System Settings -> "Network Settings"
Set up a new network interface (LAN, ISDN, ADSL, ...) drakconnect --wizard KDE System Settings -> "Network Settings"
Remove a connection drakconnect --del drakx-net KDE System Settings -> "Network Settings"
Personalize and Secure your network Manage different network profiles draknetprofile NetworkManager  ??? Does NetworkManager have some profile support?
Configure VPN connection to secure network access drakvpn KDE System Settings -> "Network Settings"
System
Localization
Manage date and time drakclock KDE System Settings -> "Date and Time"
Manage localization for your system localedrake KDE System Settings -> "Locale" Standard KDE configurator should be patched to edit ~/.i18n in order to affect all applications
Administration tools
Open a console as administrator drakconsole Applications -> "Root Terminal"
Network Sharing
Configure Windows(R) shares
Access Windows (SMB) shared drives and directories diskdrake --smb The tool is still there, but you also may use
Dolphin (Network -> Samba Shares)
Share drives and directories with Windows (SMB) systems draksambashare The tool is still there, but you also may use
Dolphin (Right click on folder name -> Properties -> Share)</br> if you enabled samba sharing for the user in KDE control center
Configure WebDAV shares
Access WebDAV shared drives and directories diskdrake --dav Dolphin (Network -> Add Network Folder)
Local disks
Local disks
Manage disk partitions diskdrake --hd drakxtools  ? gparted gparted support LVM in 'read-only' mode.
gparted launched in ROSA displays a strange (very small) unallocated space at the end of every disk.
Configure CDROM mount options diskdrake --removable drakxtools KDE System Settings -> "Removable Devices"
Share your hard disk partitions diskdrake --fileshare drakxtools Dropped in ROSA 2012 LTS
Security
Security
Configure system security, permissions and audit msecgui msec-gui leave standalone tool written in Python; the package is not installed by default
Configure TOMOYO Linux policy tomoyo-gui tomoyo-gui leave standalone tool written in Python; the package is not installed by default
Set up your personal firewall drakfirewall drakx-net
Configure authentication for Mandriva tools draksec drakxtools  !!! Probably we will have to rework this one if we replace some MDV tools
Advanced setup for network interfaces and firewall drakinvictus drakx-net
Parental Controls drakguard drakguard
Boot
Configure boot steps
Set up boot system drakboot --boot drakxtools GRUB2 Editor
or maybe this one is more functional: Grub Customizer
Set up display manager drakedm drakxtools Dropped in ROSA 2012 LTS
there is no need in this for many users; experienced ones can just change DM value in the /etc/sysconfig/desktop file