Graphical Front End To Crontab Missing?

[Alexander Jacob Tsykin]

On Saturday 15 April 2006 01:18, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> On 4/14/06, Andrew Price <andy at andrewprice.me.uk> wrote:
> > I use crontab to run jobs such as playing music to wake me up in the
> > morning and it occurs to me that less experienced Windows users
> > switching to Ubuntu might think that Ubuntu lacks the equivalent of a
> > "task scheduler" because there is no GUI tool to set up cron jobs. I
> > think a tool of this sort would be handy since crontab syntax takes a
> > bit of getting used to and is currently command-line based.
> >
> > Am I being blind and a crontab GUI tool of this kind exists or is this a
> > niche in Ubuntu's package repertoire? If so, should it be installed by
> > default in Ubuntu? Does it not exist and need somebody to start it as a
> > project? Should I be posting to ubuntu-devel? :)
>
> You are thinking of something like gcrontab from the universe repository?
>
> >From it's description:
>
> "GTK based crontab editor
> gcrontab is a simple GTK editor for the UNIX cron system."
>
Or else KCron, also from the Universe repository (I think).

Sasha