Re: 2.4 Proposed New Modules - System Tools

[Carlos Garnacho <garnacho tuxerver net>]

El mar, 27-05-2003 a las 15:49, Sean Middleditch escribió:

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> > 4. Is anybody still suggesting these for GNOME 2.4. Why not exactly?
> 
> I personally think things like this should be distro-specific; i.e., if
> RedHat or whoever wants to use these, fine.  But the only people not
> using distro-supplied packages are more likely than not to have systems
> not even supported by the gst (i.e., the from-scratch or
> hobby/specialist distros).

well, seeing that the number of distros that provide system
administration tools is really low (AFAIK RedHat, Mandrake, SuSE...
any?) and that the GNOME desktop is nowadays demanding lots of
integration for every app, I think that the gst fill a gap in these two
issues

- first of all it provides a (at least potentially) generic way to do
the administration task, and every linux distribution could be added to
the supported distros list with minimum efforts (in fact, I've received
several patches and I'm in contact with several distro developers to
increase such list). 

Regarding to the lfs systems, if the tools are run and don't know the
system in which they are, they ask the user, so the user her/himself
could select the most similar system, if you read:

http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/setup-tool-hackers/2003-May/000089.html

you'll see that the gst may be run without breaking the system on lfs
:-P

- regarding to the desktop integration, they might be more integrated,
and there are already projects to improve this, but anyways (IMHO) their
integration is good, the rest is just a matter of time :-)

	Regards
> 
> Some of the tools are generically useful tho, like the modem dialer
> setup.
> 
> > 5. What's going to change about that for GNOME 2.6. They seem very useful
> > and I hear they work fairly well.
> > 
> > [1] The GEP end date is now June 2nd. Not much time left.
> > 
> > Murray Cumming
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