PROPOSAL: GNOME System Tools for 2.8 [was: Re: PROPOSAL: GNOME Nettool for GNOME 2.8]

[Carlos Garnacho <garnacho tuxerver net>]

El jue, 03-06-2004 a las 19:19, +1000, Jeff Waugh escribió:

<snip>
> "Hello?"
> "Hi there, my internet is down."
> "Aha. Can you load web pages?"
> "No."
> "Can you use $INTERNAL_APPLICATION?"
> "No."
> "I see. Okay, go to your Applications menu, choose Internet, and then
> Network Information."
> "Uh huh. Uh huh. Okay."
> "Now you should see a 'Devices' page, can you see that?"
> "Yes."
> "What does the 'IP address' field say?"
> "Zero dot zero dot zero dot zero."
"Alright, let's fix that... open a console, type su, enter root password
and type $FAVOURITE_TEXT_EDITOR $DISTRO_NETWORK_CONFIG_FILE"

and here comes the traditional gnome system tools proposal! turning this
into

"Alright, let's fix that... click on the 'configure' button beside the
device name and ..." [1]

The GNOME System Tools not only configure networking, they also
configure users & groups, time & date, services at startup and
bootloaders config, and they do this on Debian, Mandrake, RedHat,
Fedora, FreeBSD, Gentoo, Slackware, PLD...[2] and therefore, most of any
derived distro. They are also being sucessfully deployed and used by
sysadmins and users in Extremadura (as they are the default system tools
for their distro)

what more can I say?

	Carlos


[1] patch for this is in the oven
[2] SuSE is 60% supported in CVS, 100% support real soon (TM)