So I've learned some new things since yesterday... Instead of awkward terminal hacks, I'm now using Zenity to collect the command line, and gksu to elevate privileges. It's all still not polished, but looks slightly better.
Also I've quickly packaged the curses version of MTR (My Traceroute) in a similar way. GTK-detection fails with a crosscompiler setup, and I couldn't yet convince the configure script to work around that...
tcpdump: http://web.gxis.de/pnd/tcpdump.pnd
mtr-curses: http://web.gxis.de/pnd/mtr.pnd
Also I've quickly packaged the curses version of MTR (My Traceroute) in a similar way. GTK-detection fails with a crosscompiler setup, and I couldn't yet convince the configure script to work around that...
tcpdump: http://web.gxis.de/pnd/tcpdump.pnd
mtr-curses: http://web.gxis.de/pnd/mtr.pnd