Re: Proposal comments

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Rodrigo Moya">

> On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 12:48 +0200, David Nielsen wrote:
> > Why does the the desktop platform absolutely _need_ a frontend for
> > networking applications, it's a cool thing, but again does our target
> > audience really need it so badly that it needs to be shipped in the
> > desktop platform release?
>
> those tools help in the diagnosis of network problems in an easy way, by a
> simple user. For enterprise deployments, it seems quite helpful to me.

I agree with this -> it's basically the same argument as we'd use for vino
(and to a lesser degree, zenity). Mostly useful for admins supporting GNOME
users and systems, but also useful for some kinds of users.

- Jeff

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