Re: 2.4: System Tools - I like them

[Carlos Garnacho <garnacho tuxerver net>]

El s?, 31-05-2003 a las 16:46, Murray Cumming Comneon com escribió:
> > > From: Cumming Murray (COMNEON Linz) 
> > > So, people need to try them out _now_ and start the 
> > > criticism. The GEP 11
> > > end date is June 2nd - 4 days from now.
> > ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-system-tools/
> 
> Some minor changes need to be made, and the maintainer has agreed to make
> them.
> 
> I think the network connections tool is flaky and far from usable, and I
> don't think we want that support problem. But if we left the network one out
> for now, leaving a boot manager, a runlevel editor, time settings, and a
> user manager, I'd like to see this go in. At the least, it's really silly
> that we don't have some way to set the system clock in GNOME.

hmm, sorry, but I can't agree with leaving the network tool aside, if
with "far from usable" you mean that it breaks your configuration, then
redhat-9 support should be removed from the network tool until it's
fixed, or if you mean that it has an unexpected behaviour, then it's a
bug, and those things could be done perfectly in the 2.4 timeframe.

I also think that the network tool (among other good things) fills a
very important gap for modem users (although it's not designed as a PPP
dialer) and this issue should not be simply ignored.

	Thanks


PD: I'll try to get Redhat 9 and figure out what happens
PPD: this reminds me that I should write a complete and up-to-date guide
for testing gst on untested distros...