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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: System Configure tool
From:       m_elter () t-online ! de (Matthias Elter)
Date:       2001-05-04 19:33:56
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On Friday 04 May 2001 20:26, Charles Samuels wrote:
> Upon reading the latest article at The Dot, I've come to the conclusion
> that we need to write a Generic System Configuration tool.

I feared somebody would.

> Isn't this the responsibility of the vendors?  Yes, and no.  Yes, because

YES! Definitely!

> they're the jerkwads that can't decide on the standard for configuring
> these things, but no, because they're a) incompetent and can never do it
> right and b) we want the best for our users and ourselves.  Or at least I
> think we do on point b... ;)

a) bullshit
b) they know their distribution specifics and changes better than we could 
ever keep up with

> How do I indend to acheive this?  We'll be abstracting both the configure
> system, and the user-interface. and both of these components will be
> dlopened.  This is to make it possible to have a console version, and a KDE
> version, with the same configuration backend.  You want a console version
> for only a few specific modules, particularly stuff to configure the X
> server ;) Welcome is the other tools, however.

Sounds like a linuxconf rewrite. Better forget this, SuSE, Caldera and 
Mandrake, Redhat are all working on configuration tools. SuSE and Caldera 
implement them as kcontrol modules. Both do a pretty good job at it, just 
wait for the new versions.

Matthias

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