RE: 2.4: System Tools - Please try them

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

> From: Carlos Garnacho [mailto:garnacho tuxerver net] 
> 
> Hi!
> 
> please, have a look at
> http://www.ultimaorbita.com/garnacho/screenshot.png
> 
> does this fit in your idea of services tool? at least it does in mine
> :-P. I did this modification to runlevel-admin in this evening, and
> still needs lots of love, but when it's ready I'll commit it
> 
> please! any feedback? :-)
> 
> 	Regards
> 
> PD: the intelligent priority support is still a TODO :-)

It looks much better. Here are some minor points based on a comparision with
the RedHat 9 services tool:

1. The checkbox column should have a column title. It's not clear what the
checkbox means.
2. It would be nice if the service description for the currently-selected
service was shown in that first screen,
   so people can browse through them without opening a secondary dialog for
each one.
3. It looks like we have to start the service by
   - selecting it and opening the details dialog.
   - selecting "start" as the parameter.
   - clicking the "execute" button.
   Can't we just have "start" and "stop" buttons?
4. I guess we would have to investigate the "Graphical Mode" and "Less
Options" things in the actual release.

Murray Cumming
murrayc usa net
www.murrayc.com


> 
> El mar, 03-06-2003 a las 20:15, Seth Nickell escribió:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > Most people don't care about the bootup sequence. They care about
> > whether the service is running or not. A single checkbox 
> would do just
> > fine. It would be especially nice if when you checked the box, the
> > service actually started and when you unchecked it, the 
> service stopped
> > (and of course, this also effects the "runlevel" settings... however
> > RH's setup tool does it). It would be even cooler if there 
> was some way
> > to check if the service was running (for services which 
> support this,
> > like atalk, httpd, etc) and only show the checkbox as 
> checked if it was.
> > 
> > This gets rid of the distinction between "service runs at 
> bootup" and
> > "service is running".
> > 
> > -Seth
> > 
> > 
>