Re: PROPOSAL : Integrating system tools in GNOME

[Daniel Brodie <daniel brodienet com>]

On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 22:07 +0200, Carlos Garnacho wrote:
> El vie, 04-06-2004 a las 05:57, -0400, Daniel Brodie escribió:
> > > Then it is obviously not advertised or used correctly or its
> > architecture
> > > doesn't inspire the OS makers to endorse it. I have yet to see anyone
> > except
> > > Ximian using the framework (I think RH uses python and their own
> > backend
> > > thing and Mdk their own thing too using gtk-perl).
> > 
> > I personally think that the problem with gnome-system-tools is a bit
> > different. Currently, the backend is very tied in into the frontend (I
> > don't mean codewise, since I don't really know about that, but rather
> > from the way the project is presented etc...). I think that if the
> > backend is ripped out, and made to get some kde buy-in (KST for the KDE
> > centric distros?), and also have a curses frontend, then distros would
> > prefer to support this semi-universal backend. That way they write one
> > backend (should be a few Perl/Python scripts) and then people can use
> > any number of tools from any DE or frontend to configure their system,
> > and they arn't tied into Gnome/GTK.
> 
> The backends are in a separate CVS module (setup-tools-backends in cvs.
> gnome.org) and there is already a KDE tool using the backends [1],
> that's definitely a good first step :)
> 
> [1] http://knetworkconf.sourceforge.net/
> 

Wow! That is very cool. Thank you for pointing that out, I didn't know
that!
How about moving the backends officially to freedesktop.org so to make
it more visible, and make it more of a semi-standard?

Daniel