Re: Proposal for inclusion of gmodconfig in GNOME 2.5

[Julien Olivier <julo altern org>]

On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 18:07, Cyril Bortolato wrote:
> They needed to *configure* the kernel module for their
> webcam to their liking. The default settings produced
> a terrible picture. I did not think they could edit
> their /etc/modules.conf so I wrote gmodconfig :-)
> 

Hi Cyril.

I appreciate your efforts and I really think gmodconfig could be a very
interesting application (at least for me). Now, I'm just wondering:
wouldn't it be smarter to make your app export plugins so that external
apps can use it in there preferences. Let me explain: for example, any
camera software (GPhoto ?) could use your application (as a plugin) to
add a "configure your camera". I think it's more logical to tweak your
camera setting from your camera software than from a kernel module
tweaker... I mean, who knows that kernel modules are there to tweak your
camera options (yes, you, me, some other geeks too, but not my mum...) ?
In the same way, it would be interesting for a TV application to use
your app to embed preferences to set the type of TV card.

What do you think of that idea ?

> Cyril
> 
> 
> Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:
> >>From: desktop-devel-list-admin gnome org 
> >>The module configuration part of the tool passed the
> >>"mom & dad" test successfully :-)
> > 
> > 
> > Why did your mom and dad need to install a kernel module? If they actually
> > felt the need to do that to achieve any day-to-day goal, then Moms and Dads
> > aren't what they used to be.
> > 
> > Murray Cumming
> > www.murrayc.com
> > murrayc usa net
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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