Re: Python based capplet

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 22:33 +0100, Jens Granseuer wrote:
> 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...
> 
well, I thought the code was already written, and didn't want to make
someone rewrite everything just for the language. If the capplet needs
to be written from scratch, yes, C would be a much better option.
-- 
Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>