Re: Gnome panel and configuration system

[Antonio Campos <acampos ceronet com>]

Antonio Campos wrote:

> Bob Phan wrote:
>
> > Antonio Campos wrote:
> > >
> > > I was thinking the other day how to minimize some efforts that are being
> > > put in gnome and linux in general, and I came to some ideas I want to share.
> > >
> > > Why have a menu editor in the panel? I think the correct way to go is
> > > letting gmc make a lot of the hard work for the applications. I mean
> > > that the menues should be only entries in a directory, and the submenues
> > > or icons only have to be directories or applications links into these
> > > directories (the way Microsoft does it with Windows). So, when an user
> > > wants to add or delete a menu entry, the only thing to need to do is to
> > > edit he directory structure through gmc. If you want to modify the
> > > menues, simply start gmc into the directory that holds the menues
> > > structure (example: .gnome/panel/menues).
> > Check out /usr/share/gnome/apps and ~username/.gnome/apps
> >
> > >
> > > Another idea for a more "easy linux" (let me know if it is a good or bad
> > > one):
> > > I know this should go to the linuxconf team, but I think this is very
> > > related to gnome.
> > > Why have a linuxconf application, when you can have a directory
> > > structure that holds little controls that modify the computer
> > > configuration?
> > A good idea, in theory, but not everyone uses gnome, and even less use
> > linuxconf.  Personally, i never use gmc, i find bash a much better
> > alternative (but that's my opinion).  Everything that is configurable is
> > configurable through its respective daemon or application, there is no
> > central 'control panel' for linux (although linuxconf tries to create
> > one).  It would be possible (maybe even beneficial) to do something like
> > this for gnome users.  But the problem would be that it would be limited
> > to gmc users.  And as long as alot of ppl prefer to use vim for most of
> > their system configuration editing, i don't think this model will change
> > too soon, although i could be wrong.
> >
> > --
> > /*
> >  * Bob Phan <ex-freek@yahoo.com, rphan@nrgn.com>
> >  *
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> This configuration system is not oriented only for gmc. Every hard disk browser
> could use it (gmc, kfm for kde, even bash for terminal lovers...), because the
> idea is to make the configuration of the distint parts of the system based on
> little executable components (that may even execute on command line).