Free front end software for linux

The CSound Front-End provides CSound users with a GUI with a clean and efficient layout.

The main window has been redesigned. The engine input frame is a mutant widget that can accomodate different styles of input selection (in the picture we have orc/sco pair, all-in-one .csd file and orc/generator) as well as most kinds of orc/sco pre-processing.

At the moment you switch from between the input frames using the +/- buttons (ugly!). Settings are saved separately for each frame. From the programmers point of view, writing a pre-processing plug-in now means to write a new engine input frame class.

The option window is still the same. As general GUI design guide line, Im trying to use few complex windows instead of 10s of little windows.

As side effect of the routing re-design, the logger window as been simplified. From the only menu available you can still start an external generator, assigning the logged engine as default route.

vnstat PHP frontend project is a PHP fronted end to vnStat, a network traffic logger. Since vnStat is console mode only I created this script to make a nice report of the data collected by vnStat.

This script requires a working PHP setup with GD image libraries. Also vnStat must be properly installed and collecting data. For information about how to set those up please check their respective homepages (see links section).

Amarok Full Screen provides a full screen front end for Amarok.

The look can be changed by custom THEMES.

PHP FTP Client is an FTP client that is useful for allowing people behind a firewall access to FTP without opening the FTP ports inside the firewall.
It could be used as a front end to a local FTP server, and therefore allow the administrator to provide access to the FTP server only from localhost.
Main features:
- Provide FTP access through a firewall which blocks FTP
- Provide a front end to an FTP server which only allows access to the web server, thus reducing the risk of the FTP server being attacked.
Enhancements:
- Have corrected problems with missing files. Was a case of linking against files I shouldnt have been.
- Added an FAQ, which currently only explains how to use the multi-file upload feature.

Polyglot is a highly extensible compiler front end for the Java programming language. The project is implemented as a Java class framework using design patterns to promote extensibility. Using Polyglot, language extensions can be implemented without duplicating code from the framework itself.
Polyglot has been used to implement domain-specific languages, to explore language design ideas, to simplify Java for pedagogical purposes, and for various code transformations such as optimization and fault injection. Polyglot has been used for both major and minor language extensions; our experience suggests that the cost of implementing an extension scales well with the degree to which it modifies Java.
Polyglot compiles and runs on (at least) Linux, Solaris, Windows, and Mac OS X. Ant and the JFlex scanner generator are required to build it. On Windows, you will also need Cygwin.
Polyglot includes PPG, an extensible LALR parser generator based on the CUP LALR parser generator for Java (extended with improved debugging support).
Polyglot supports Java version 1.4, but a Polyglot extension that supports Java 5. has been developed at UCLA.
A version of Polyglot written in the J& language is also under development. It makes extending the base compiler even easier.
Enhancements:
- Miscellaneous bugfixes.
- An assumption that return statements occur only within methods has been fixed.
- A copy(NodeFactory) method has been added to the Node interface to generate a new version of a node with a different node factory.

ksshfs program is an easy to use front end for sshfs. The main limitation right now is that there is no way to enter a password at runtime to sshfs, so you should set up your ssh server and client to do a password-less login with RSA keys or some other sort of key exchange.

This shouldnt be a big problem for most home users. I will work on a way to get password input soon. Any ideas on how to accomplish this easily are more than welcome.

Also, if you choose to start konqueror via this tool, you will have to close that konqueror window before closing this tool. If anyone knows a way around this also, please let me know.

This program requires sshfs and all its dependencies, as well as kommander.

sshfs allows a user to mount the filesystem of a remote computer as a local file system so that all local programs can access files on the remote computer as if they were local. This is a very easy and secure way to do file sharing.

Read more about sshfs here: http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html

There is an sshfs how-to here: http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2005/10/28/how-to-mount-a-remote-ssh-filesystem-using-sshfs/

(this how-to is aimed at k/ubuntu users, but should be easily adaptable to users of other flavors of linux, etc.)

ktvschedule is a front end for xmltv, based on KDE 3. It shows TV program listings in a calendar view.
Enhancements:
Upgrade :
- Added systemtray
- Added Credits of Tv shows (Actors, Guests, Producers)
- Added link to imdb for each actor in the menu
- Added Translations (german full, french partial, greek zero)
- Added possibility to choose the details one wants to display
- Changed grabber configuration menu. Takes in account the differences between each tv_grab
- Show in the tray icon the current shows.
- Added (first) support for nxtvepg. At the moment it only supports showing of the nxtvepg xml file. Updating should be done by the user
- Added control of row heights.
- Added horizontal bar at current time.
- Upgraded tv_grab configuration menu
BugFix :
- Probably the last fix needed for sorting and icons in function of the different grabbers
- If show is 2 lines long or less than 10 mins show text is cut. Fixed
- Tv_Grab did not quits after ktvschedule quits. Fixed
- Fixed minimum size of ComboBox in case of empty combolist
- Manage channel button is disabled while refreshing guide