RE: 2.4: System Tools - Please try them

[Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandrakesoft com>]

Le jeu 05/06/2003 à 16:41, Reinout van Schouwen a écrit :
> Hi Seth,
> 
> On Tue, 2 Jun 2003, Seth Nickell wrote:
> 
> > them (the ones that haven't already been consumed by Unix ;-) are going
> > to prefer a nice GNOME way of doing things.
> 
> > Mandrake and RedHat then are the two players that we'd need to
> > coordinate with. Apart from the "works on all distros" issue (which is
> > of course a show stopped), I actually really prefer RH's tools, but I'd
> 
> w.r.t. Mandrake: I can't speak for them of course but I've been
> sufficiently involved in the development process for 9.1 that I can say
> something about it. The Mandrake drakxtools are based on perl-GTK so that
> would probably simplify cooperation with g-s-t. On the down side however,
> their designers seem to have never heard of a HIG or even basic usability
> principles.[1] :-( (Granted, they're not targeting GNOME specifically, but
> still.)

Well, when our UI designer saw this screenshot, he wanted to kill Mdk
developper responsible for this stuff :) I think it will be fixed for
next release ..

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Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandrakesoft com>
Mandrakesoft