Re: System administration with GNOME.

[Martijn van Beers <martijn earthling net>]

On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 09:32:22AM -0500, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
>    One subject we have avoided during a long time in GNOME was the one
> of writing system administration tools.  As time passes, it becomes
> more obvious that we must address this to offer users a complete
> desktop solution.

>    We need to define a central place where configuration tools for the
> system could be launched and write the tools.

>    I am inclined to think that we can do all these tools using
> Python/GNOME or Perl/GNOME for most of these tasks.  So we need to get
> volunteers to work on the various things.

Do we really need to start from scratch here? How about improving one
of the existing projects like linuxconf?


> 	   For doing that, using Perl for example, we could have:
> 
> 		useradmin_core.pl
> 		useradmin_gnome.pl
> 		useradmin_web.pl
> 
> 	   And both the GNOME and the Web main programs would invoke
> 	   the "core" routines in useradmin_core.pl

Not really relevant, but I'd think we'd be using the Perl module
system:)


-- Martijn