Re: module viewer

[Martin Oberzalek <oberzalek chello at>]

I wrote the Gtk Version of the module-viewer after and while 
installing my soundcard. It helped me much. 
But the code is worse. I included sources of the programs 
rmmod and lsmod in such a ugly way, that I'm wondering that it works.
And the program is not complete. You can see modules, and remove modules.
But there is not the full power of rmmod implemented.

And every time I run the program I thought: "Isn't there a better way?"

Now and after reading the Linux Programmers Guide I can rewrite the
application with pipes ( for nondeveloper: a better way! ). 
In gnome? I don't know. At the moment there is nothing GNOME specific,
and the port to GTK is easy, but I don't know if I will use some
gnome functions in future. Maybe I have to. 

On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Ali Abdin wrote:

> I'm curious, if it works in GTK, why would you want to port it to GNOME?
> 
> Not every app is a candidate for GNOME (it'd mean a lot of unnecessary 
> bloat by linking to libgnomeui and libgnome and stuff).
> 
> The advantage of coding in GTK means more users can use it and it will 
> generally be faster.
> 
> -  If there is a specific reason that you need to port 
> it to GNOME then do it (i.e. there's something in GNOME that you can't 
> find in GTK). 
> 
> -  If you want to port it as a 'learning project' to help you 
> understand GNOME then do it
> 
> -  If you want to make it into an applet or something, then do it
> 
> -  If you're sick of GTK+ and would like something that simplifies many 
> tasks. Generally GTK+ code is very tedious when compared to somethings in 
> GNOME, GNOME wraps around it and simplifies it to most of the developer's 
> needs.
> 
> These are some of the reason why you would want to port a Gtk+ app to 
> GNOME. Generally though this may alienate some people (KDE?) who install 
> Gtk+ and KDE but no GNOME. (For exmaple, i'm sure there are many GNOME 
> people who have installed Qt and not KDE - that way you can have the 
> necessary apps of both sides without the other 'environments'). You have 
> to evaluate it yourself and decide which you want
> 
> 
> On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Martin Oberzalek wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Once I created a grafical frontend for lsmod an rmmod in GTK.
> > Should I port it to GNOME?
> > 
> > Ps.: On the following address you can get the GTK version.
> >      http://members.chello.at/programme_main.html