Re: Configuration tools

[Roberto Alsina <ralsina unl edu ar>]

On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, John Kodis wrote:

> I wondered what tools the KDE and Gnome folks plan on using for system
> configuration tasks such as maintaining the passwd file, the fstab
> file, and so on.  There seem to be a number of viable alternatives in
> this area.  Offhand, I can think of at least three:
> 
>   - COAS, at http://www.coas.org/

COAS has, IIRC, a Qt front end done by the Caldera people. KDE-izing it 
should be easy.
And B. Perens 


>   - Linuxconf

I have done a fair part of a KDE frontend to it, but it is stalled 
because of lack of time and I am a little ill right now.

>   - the Dotfile Generator

This is Tcl/Tk, right? I don't know about the architecture of it.

> A big win would be to find an approach that would allow the KDE
> developers to set up a Qt-based front end, the Gnome developers to set
> up a Gtk-based front end, and the actual configuration modules could
> be set up to interoperate with either front end.  I know that at least
> COAS would allow such an inter-project cooperative approach.

Same about LinuxConf.

Best regards.

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