Re: any bus,suggestions or improvements on NmapGUI?

[Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>]

On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 07:03:26PM +0200, Ole Morten Grodås wrote:
> I have seen that there has been a great number of downloads. What where your 
> experiences? 

I think everyone is still waiting for Qt4 to comile :).  I have a
snappy machine, and that must have taken at least an hour or two.
That innocent-looking 20MB tarball expands to more than 100MB with 8,726
files!  But once I got Qt installed, NmaGUI was up and running quickly
and was worth it.  It looks great!  I'll send more feedback tomorrow,
but here are my initial notes:

o It is good that you had compilation instructions at
  http://home.no.net/grodaas/nmap/README.txt

o Those instructions should probably include the Qt tarball location,
  as it is a pain to find on Qt's site.  I found it at
  ftp://ftp.trolltech.com/qt/source/qt-x11-opensource-src-4.0.1.tar.gz .

o Maybe there should be a warning that people can take a nap, or maybe
  even a weekend vacation, between steps 4 (qt 'make') and 5 (qt 'su
  -c make install').  Sorry to keep whining about this :).  It's not
  your fault, and not really a big deal either.  And to Trolltech's
  credit, that monstrosity compiled the first time with no errors.
  And they are slick widgets!  Plus, most distros will likely soon
  include Qt4.

o Your compilation page instructs to run qmake in the nmapgui-1.0.2
  dir.  I also had to run it in nmapgui-1.0.2/src before compilation
  worked.  Then it compiled perfectly.

o I started the application.  Wow!  It is obvious that you put a ton
  of work into this.  The organization looks good.

o Your NmapGUI and Adriano's UMIT both utilize scan templates, while
  NmapFE has no such concept.  I think it is a great idea though.

o Ther persistance is great.  I quit and started it up again, and it
  remembered my previous scans.

o I'm glad the GUI panes are very flexible.  I hate apps that don't
  properly expand/contract when you resize the window or that force
  you to use their default and sub-optimal subpane sizes.

o Any chance you can add the Nmap command-line on the main screen, so
  I can see what exactly is going to be done when I press scan?  I'd
  like to see it in the scan-in-progress window too so I can tell what
  is running in a particular scan window.  Maybe it could simply be
  prepended right above the Nmap output (before "Starting nmap 3.93
  ...").  

o Whoa, I just found the "View -> Nmap Commands" option which does
  most of what I just asked for.  Rock on!  I would suggest turning that
  on by default.

o It is great that you have keyboard shortcuts for almost everything.

o I haven't had a chance to play with them much, but the "search" and
  "compare results" dialogues look great.

o The default templates could use a lot of work, but that is a trivial
  detail as they are so easy to change.  Is there a way to delete a
  user-created template?

Anyway, great work!  With your NmapGUI and Adriano's UMIT, I think the
days of NmapFE are numbered!

Cheers,
Fyodor


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