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@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ Date: 2010-06-28 00:30
 
 <p>The last few days I have been looking into the status of the LDAP
 directory in Debian Edu, and in the process I started to miss a GUI
-tool to browse the LDAP object trees.  The only one I was able to find
-in Debian/Squeeze and Lenny was
+tool to browse the LDAP tree.  The only one I was able to find in
+Debian/Squeeze and Lenny is
 <a href="http://luma.sourceforge.net/">LUMA</a>, which has proved to
 be a great tool to get a overview of the current LDAP directory
 populated by default in Skolelinux.  Thanks to it, I have been able to
@@ -13,11 +13,22 @@ find empty and obsolete subtrees, misplaced objects and duplicate
 objects.  It will be installed by default in Debian/Squeeze.  If you
 are working with LDAP, give it a go. :)</p>
 
-<p>Did notice one problem with it I have not had time to report to the
-BTS yet.  There is no .desktop file in the package, so the tool do not
-show up in the Gnome and KDE menus, but only deep down in in the
+<p>I did notice one problem with it I have not had time to report to
+the BTS yet.  There is no .desktop file in the package, so the tool do
+not show up in the Gnome and KDE menus, but only deep down in in the
 Debian submenu in KDE.  I hope that can be fixed before Squeeze is
 released.</p>
 
+<p>I have not yet been able to get it to modify the tree yet.  I would
+like to move objects and remove subtrees directly in the GUI, but have
+not found a way to do that with LUMA yet.  So in the mean time, I use
+<a href="http://www.lichteblau.com/ldapvi/">ldapvi</a> for that.</p>
+
 <p>If you have tips on other GUI tools for LDAP that might be useful
 in Debian Edu, please contact us on debian-edu@lists.debian.org.</p>
+
+<p>Update 2010-06-29: Ross Reedstrom tipped us about the
+<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gq.html">gq</a> package as a
+useful GUI alternative.  It seem like a good tool, but is unmaintained
+in Debian and got a RC bug keeping it out of Squeeze.  Unless that
+changes, it will not be an option for Debian Edu based on Squeeze.</p>