Free settings from your software for linux

jSettings package is meant to provide a Java library for dealing with program settings. (I use "settings" as just another synonym for preferences, properties, etc but I chose the word settings because of the already existing Preferences and Properties frameworks in Java). It wants to be a powerful tool for the developers of Java programs that want to manipulate structures of settings.
The code (as well as this page) is at an early development and testing stage. On top of that, I am only doing it as a means to teach myself Java (Im an economist by training and by profession) , so even at later stages you can expect the quality of the code to be quite low.
If you feel like any part of the design, code, Javadoc, examples etc is silly please dont hesitate to let me know about it. Also, I would also be happy to include requested features as long as I can understand the need for them and I also know how to do it. So please write to me if you have anything to say about this project!
Main features:
- Handles INI and FSTAB type of files and settings. There is no XML support yet, but I plan to do it if it seems to be requested.
- INI settings are specified by a setting = value pair.
- FSTAB settings are defined by an array of settings, each in a predefined field. I call them like this because the structure is similar to the fstab file in UNIX environments. Logical structure is quite similar to that of XML files.
- Settings can be logically structured into sections.
- There are two degrees of hierarchy available, called hierarchical and non-hierarchical. For example, in a hierarchical organization, the settings in a file called settings.ini, containing the following lines:
[section1]
setting1=value1
[[section1-2]] //Notice the double brackets
setting1-2=value1-2
would be refered to as
settings:section1:setting1
and
settings:section1:section1-2:setting1-2
In a non-hierarchical structure they would be
settings:section1:setting1
and
settings:section1-2:setting1-2 (section1-2 is not a child of section1 anymore).
- Loads settings from external files, either from individual files in ASCII format or from archives containing several settings files.
- Includes support for default values for settings, both for ini and fstab settings.
- The advantage is that the actual ini and fstab files will only contain the deviations from the defaults.
- Includes support for system-wide and user-specific settings, for multi-user environments.
- A program would first load the defaults, then the system-wide settings and then the user-specific ones. Also when modifying the settings, there is a choice between doing it at user and at system level.
- Support for adding/modifying/deleting settings.
- Default support for validating the settings.
- Each ini-type setting and each fstab-type field have a validation rule in the form of a regular expression. When loading the value for that setting/field, it is being checked against the rule and only accepted if it confirms to the rule. Of course, if the user wants it she can have .* as the rule for each setting.
- Support for flushing the changes made to the settings to the external files.
- Extensive logging/debug messages.

simplesettings 0.5 is an excellent tool for programmers. It provides simple settings for initialization for third party apps and libraries in Python.

netGo is a distribution-independent networking tool (written in Qt) for changing network settings quickly and easily. It is intended for laptop owners, who often need to change network settings when relocating.
It allows you to create profiles that contain the network settings such as the IP, netmask, gateway, name servers and wireless options. After creating a profile it can be executed with a single click.
netGo is distributed under the terms of the GPL-license.
Main features:
- Configure an interface with static IP, netmask, gateway and nameservers.
- Configure an interface using DHCP.
- Configure an interface using wireless options.
- Execute a profile from the commandline - without GUI.
- System tray support (works in KDE, Gnome, xfce etc).

GNOME Configurator is a program for editing advanced GNOME settings in an easy way.
Edit advanced GNOME settings in an easy way. Currently has support for Metacity, Epiphany, Galeon, Panels, and Application Look and Feel.
Enhancements:
- Made the scrollbar settings actually work.
- Updated the French translation.
- Added support for setting the individual colors of the GTK+ theme.

KopeteNowListening is an Amarok script, a complete rewrite, but is based on many ideas from others.
KopeteNowListening will update Kopete avatar, away message and away status based on the current playing song. The configurations are made via kdialog and its all written in bash script.
Feel free to send me ideas and opinions about this one.
Enhancements:
- Fix a bug that restore default [photo, nickname, away] msg even when configured to not use theses settings

Heliodor packages contains the Metacity themes for the Beryl project.

Heliodor provides exactly what the header suggests, metacity theme support.

Heliodor is not yet feature complete but works on a basic level, and in the future will support basic transparency settings.

OpenBSD Live-CD Firewall is an OpenBSD-based pf (packet filter) firewall, with DNS, squid, NAT, and a DHCP server (dnsmasq) for internal clients preconfigured. Settings and log files can be saved to a USB device.
Saved settings will be restored at the next reboot. Additional security related software is available on the CD (arpwatch, honeyd, ntop, portsentry, etc.)
Main features:
- runs without modifying the hard-drive
- external interface will be configured via DHCP - should work with a Cable Modem connection
- DHCP service for internal LAN
- caching DNS
- Squid Proxy
- NAT (masquerading)
- save your configuration and passwords to an USB mass-storage device (usb-pen drive) [ /backup/etc2usb ]
- If the USB device is connected at boot time these settings will be used.
- save all log files to an USB mass-storage device for future analysis [ /etc/log2usb ]
Enhancements:
- The Squid proxy server works now in transparent mode without further configuration.

Netprofiler is a software that can write network settings into config files.
Netprofiler saves the settings of network devices into files with appropriate names for each device into a folder with a name specified by the user.
These are called netprofiles. It is then easy to change the network settings to those saved in the profiles.
Netprofiler is released under the GNU Public License version 2 or any higher version if avaliable.
Enhancements:
- Added a checkif_root function to install.sh to make life easier for users who want to at least view the help for the installer.
- Added checks for hostx in case host from bind-utils isnt installed to resolv hostnames for get_defaultroute.
- Added masked filtering as a config file option. When enabled it excludes any devices that start with the device names in filtered.list. For example if eth appeared in filtered.list then no ethernet devices would be configured by netprofiler despite those devices being present in the profile that was being activated.
- Root permission checks are now only executed when activating a profile or generating one. This allows normal users to list profiles, see the --help messages, see the current settings etc.
- Added path checks for id. (used to be just /bin/id but added /usr/bin/id ).
- Changed default permissions for the netprofiler script to 755 to enable users to run it.
- Big thanks go to Bogdan Duda for spotting and fixing these bugs as well as writing the patch which included most of these features. Cheers!