[Setup-tool-hackers] Testing GST 0.22 with ML 9.0

[Roberto Rosselli Del Turco <rosselli ling unipi it>]

Hi all, here's a first report about GST 0.22 and Mandrake Linux 9.0. I 
had to choose ML 7.2 to have the tools start (every time: can't that be 
modified so that you choose once and for all?) and then tried to set 
things up. Hope it helps, there are many usability concerns though :) 
which you can probably keep for a more advanced stage.

Ciao

-- 
Roberto Rosselli Del Turco      e-mail:	rosselli@cisi.unito.it
Dipartimento di Scienze			rosselli@ling.unipi.it
del Linguaggio			Then spoke the thunder	DA
Universita' di Torino		Datta: what have we given?  (TSE)

   Hige sceal the heardra,     heorte the cenre,
   mod sceal the mare,       the ure maegen litlath.  (Maldon 312-3)
GENERAL ISSUES

- apply button: I thought the Apply button was deprecated in preference
capplets, it surely is in current GNOME desktop preferences. Perhaps Save
would be a better choice, anyway, and a profile control tool coupled with
it would be even better
- more/fewer options button vs advanced tab: I noticed that sometimes
there's a button to havemore/less options, sometimes there's an Advanced
tab, should be checked with the HIG
- ballon/contextual help: virtually non existant, should be put in at some
time because it is very beneficial for the user.


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network-admin

In a nutshell: doesn't work

- I could set a modem connection easily, unfortunately clicking on activate does nothing (ifup ppp0 is not enough to activate the connection) even after I installed wvdial
- network-admin keeps forgetting the connections I configure
- as probably no config file is saved, ifup eth0 also fails, ifconfig never
shows it working
- /dev/modem should be the default modem port or at least present in the popup list
- connections tab: the five buttons in the central area seem to be disposed in a not too ordered way, perhaps the space should be disposed vertically:

	Connection n. 1			Add...
	Connection n. 2			Delete...
	...						Configure...

							Activate
							Deactivate

- clicking on the Default Gateway Device Button seems to activate some change even if there's only one choice (Auto) available
- in the Hosts tab if you click on the default host (localhost) there's no way to add/delete a host because the corresponding buttons are always ghosted (in other words, there's no way to clear the two text fields if you click on one of the hosts listed above)

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users-admin

Works with minor problems

+ users created with this tool seem to work fine
+ remembers its state between one crash/use and a subsequent use
+ it isn't fooled by attempt of assigning UID already in use
- couldn't reach the Groups tab the first time I launched it (?)
- crashed while adding groups to a user
- I expected to edit a user's settings by clicking twice on his name, but it doesn't work that way