Re: gnome system tools

[garnacho tuxerver net]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 07:48:49PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Murray Cumming Comneon com">
> 
> > I really really want to see some of the gnome-setup-tools in GNOME 2.6,
> > for stuff like Time, Users, and Network.
> 
> Sticking with those suggestions:
> 
> Time: Definitely, and if it looked very similar to all of our other
> preference dialogues, even better. g-s-t tools have an internally consistent
> look'n'feel within g-s-t, but not with control-center.

hmmm, then there's an UI problem with all the g-s-t :-P

> 
> Users: Very controversial, if only because we have to consider 'home' case
> as well as the 'enterprise' case. Most of my GNOME boxes don't have local
> users, they're all in LDAP. pam only goes so far, and you can't create a
> one-size-fits-all LDAP user management ui (without a lot of depthy generic
> design and config stuff, which would be inappropriate for the 'home' case).
> This is a hard problem, even for the distros that provide this stuff. I'm
> not sure where the line is drawn though - would we be happy shipping a g-s-t
> tool for the 'home' case, that could be disabled very easily? Hmm.

I agree with Ross here

> 
> Network: Not quite so controversial, would be nice. Dare I suggest that it
> could provide notification areas stuff, similar to Windows? :-)

unfortunately it's too soon to show coherent code :-(, but we were already
working on such things :-P, hope to get them in time for proposing for
2.6 too :-)

> 
> There are all sorts of sticky issues in g-s-t land, which makes it all the
> more satisfying to solve them... Much encouragement to the g-s-t guys! :-)
> 

oh, we also get lots of fun, don't forget it :-P


BTW, what about boot and services admin?

> - Jeff
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