Re: Python based capplet

[Jens Granseuer <jensgr gmx net>]

On 12.11.2007 15:06, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 11:46 +0100, Sebastian Heinlein wrote:
> > I don't know what the plans of Fedora currently are, but would you
> > accept a configuration tool that is based on Python in
> > gnome-control-center at all?
> >
> I really don't find any problem with that, provided, of course, that the
> python part is optional, so that people don't have to have python if
> they don't want to.
>
> Apart from that, if the performance of the capplet is ok, I've got
> nothing against it
>
> Anyone has anything against it?

I do. I have no idea what the maintainership situation will be like,
but I know that I won't touch it (since I don't know python). In
addition to that, I believe a resolution capplet is pretty fundamental,
so making it optional doesn't really buy you anything since
everybody is going to need it. Frankly, I don't think the added
burden to the maintainers and the additional dependencies this
will pull in are worth it.

I don't expect a new display capplet to be terribly complex, so I'd
rather take the whole thing and rewrite it in C...

Jens