[Setup-tool-hackers] RE: 2.4 Proposed New Modules - System Tools

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

> From: German Poo Caaman~o [mailto:gpoo@ubiobio.cl] 
> > 1. What's the relationship between gnome-system-tools and 
> gnome-network?
> > Should they be combined?
> 
> g-s-t:  Admins task (such as configure networks cards, set domain
>  and hostname, add users, etc.)
> g-n: Network users tools (such as network cards informacion (aka. 
>  ifconfig), ping, traceroute, netstat, dns querys, desktop sharing,
>  ssh/telnet, etc.)

So, gnome-network stuff is just utilties, and never something to change a
system's network configuration? If so, that's a good clear distinction. I
highly recommend that you write _something_ here:
http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/gnome-network/README

Is the user ever asked for a root password when using it?

Murray Cumming
murrayc@usa.net
www.murrayc.com 
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