GNOME System Tools

The tools consist of a set of backends, scripts written in Perl, which manipulate the system's configuration files, and generate XML descriptions of the current state, and frontends, generally written in C, which are GUIs for the GNOME desktop environment.

The tools were first developed by Hans Petter Jansson at Helix Code, later, several other Helix Code employees were involved, most notably José-María Celorio, Arturo Espinosa, and Tambet Ingo. When Helix Code changed its name to Ximian, the name of the project was also changed to Ximian Setup Tools. A while later, Ximian decided to no longer dedicate resources to the project, and it was moved to the GNOME CVS server, where Carlos Garnacho Parro later took up maintainership.

GST has been suggested for inclusion in the GNOME 2.8 desktop release, slated for the second half of 2004, and have been adopted as the standard system configuration tools in Ubuntu Linux.

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