From kde-core-devel  Tue Mar 25 10:57:15 2008
From: Sebastian Kuegler <sebas () kde ! org>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:57:15 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Guidance in KDE Admin
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On Tuesday 25 March 2008 10:35:05 Nicolas Ternisien wrote:
> - The approval of main developers of Guidance

I wouldn't have a problem with them moving into KDE Admin. The largest barr=
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currently is probably the KDE4 Port. Also, guidance needs testing before=20
integration is done, just shipping it with some distro without making sure =
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works is not a good idea.

Guidance is supposed to be working well on Debian, Kubuntu, it has original=
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been written on Mandriva (but with distro-independance in mind) so that=20
should work as well (modulo bugs and things that may have changed under the=
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hood). The code is designed so new platforms can be supported easily, some=
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will work out of the box or with very minor changes.

All modules need porting to KDE4 (and could make nice showcases for the Pyt=
hon=20
bindings then). Mountconfig would also need porting to Solid (it already us=
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HAL), Userconfig at this point only supports PAM (although I've once starte=
d=20
to add LDAP support to it.) Displayconfig doesn't currently know about xran=
dr=20
1.2 and all the dynamic stuff. Serviceconfig suffers a bit from the recent=
=20
variety of init systems, for example it hasn't been ported completely to=20
Ubuntu's upstart. It does work with  Debian's system, and I also ported it =
to=20
work well with Gentoo.

On the upside, the modules' code is fairly clean and probably not too much =
of=20
a pain to work on.

Unfortunately, lately I only rarely find the time to hack on Guidance, and=
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it's not likely to change in a short timeframe.
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sebas

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