Re: PROPOSAL : Integrating system tools in GNOME

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Sean Middleditch">
>
> > > > Red Hat has no interest in switching to YaST, SuSE doesn't want
> > > > system-config-*, GNOME doesn't plan on including either, and so on.
> > >
> > > Whoa, hey, hold on - "GNOME hasn't shipped it (officially) to date" is
> > > more correct. Certainly there is enough interest in shipping it, but for
> > > various reasons (including distro buy-in), we haven't.
> >
> > Thus, we don't have a plan to ship it, yes?  ;-)  [which "it" were you
> > refering to, anyways?  YaST or Fedora's tools?]
>
>
> Thought you meant there was no intention of shipping gnome-system-tools in
> general.

Oh, no, I wasn't refering to that.  My point was that each vendor (GNOME 
included) has its own config tool system and none have any intention of 
adopting one of the others'.  The market for GST is currently mostly 
systems that have no "native" config tools.  In time the other distros 
might adopt GST or merge their code with GST, but that isn't going to 
happen any time soon.  I would personally imagine that if any "big" 
vendor did start using/merging GST, it would probably be Red Hat; their 
tools are modular (they can pick and choose which to replace) and they 
mostly all rather suck anyhow.  ;-)

> - Jeff