graphical frontend to pon/poff

[Simon Tod <todsr1@yahoo.co.uk>]

I'm trying to set up a box for my Dad so that it's
nice and user friendly and he won't have to resort to
the command line to use a few simple packages. Having
used Knoppix for its awesome hardware detection I
stripped out KDE and replaced it with Gnome, for the
accessibility tools. 

I thought gkdial would be just the ticket to use as a
'wrapper' around pon/poff - gpppon is too simplistic -
and it seems to work, reasonably well. BUT the dialog
box doesn't display the fact that it's successfully
connected and the counters that display bytes
transferred and length of connection stay at zero.
ALSO, if I close the dialog box when I'm not connected
I can't reopen it, except from the command line and
the whole point was to have a nice user friendly icon
on the desktop... 

Anyone else had any problems with this or is there an
alternative wrapper that'll work with Gnome? I know
there's kppp but that requires pulling back in all the
kdelibs stuff...

Thanks...

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Simon Tod
todsr1@yahoo.co.uk

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