Re: Control Center Shell and libslab

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo novell com>]

On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 22:03 +0000, Luca Cavalli wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 14:02 +0100, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > > 
> > > [...]
> > > This next set would ideally be logically managed by an external
> > entity (like preferred applications) but is not currently, so libslab
> > should temporarily manage those keys rather than just have reduced
> > functionality.  They need to be installed by libslab in something
> > like /apps/libslab
> > > 
> > I would take the chance to move it to the preferred applications
> > capplet. Luca, what do you think?
> > 
> > > desktop/gnome/applications/main-menu/uninstall_package_command
> > > desktop/gnome/applications/main-menu/upgrade_package_command 
> > > [...]
> 
> If those two keys are handled by the user we can add them to preferred
> applications (or maybe we can manage them in a preferences dialog added
> to the new cc shell). But if those keys are more "configuration" keys
> than "selection" keys (a distro usually has only one default package
> manager, users will not going to change it) and they are handled by
> people behind our beloved distro, I think we can keep them gui-less.
> Just my two cents :)

there are still different update mechanisms in the same distro (rug,
yum, rpm, apt-get on SuSE, for instance), so I think it still makes
sense to provide a GUI for them.

Of course, there should be always correct defaults for those keys for
every distro.
-- 
Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo novell com>