Re: [Setup-tool-hackers] RE: 2.4 Proposed New Modules - System Tools

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 16:38, Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:
> > From: German Poo Caaman~o [mailto:gpoo ubiobio cl] 
> > > 1. What's the relationship between gnome-system-tools and 
> > gnome-network?
> > > Should they be combined?
> > 
> > g-s-t:  Admins task (such as configure networks cards, set domain
> >  and hostname, add users, etc.)
> > g-n: Network users tools (such as network cards informacion (aka. 
> >  ifconfig), ping, traceroute, netstat, dns querys, desktop sharing,
> >  ssh/telnet, etc.)
> 
> So, gnome-network stuff is just utilties, and never something to change a
> system's network configuration? If so, that's a good clear distinction. I
> highly recommend that you write _something_ here:
> http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/gnome-network/README
> 
updated in CVS, although it still doesn't show up in lxr yet.

> Is the user ever asked for a root password when using it?
> 
not now, and I don't think we'll ever add tools that require that. We
just want user-oriented tools.

cheers