Re: [Setup-tool-hackers] Gnome System Tools + PGI + Progenyhackers + more developers from Debian = working Debian Desktop

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen debian org>]

* Jeff Licquia 

| >   Only GNOME part of GST is GNOME-specific. Backends are written in
| >   Perl, and you can write other front-ends over them (for text or KDE).
| >   Of course, GST and back-ends should be splitted in different packages.
| 
| It sounds like GST is a middleware layer, with backends specific to
| particular distributions and frontends specific to particular UIs.  Is
| it actually possible to write curses frontends to GST?  If so, it sounds
| very cool.

This sounds a lot like debconf to me, except that it has a more
formalized backend system.  Is this so?

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Tollef Fog Heen                                                        ,''`.
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