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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: System Configure tool
From:       Charles Samuels <charles () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-05-05 18:40:16
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On Saturday 05 May 2001 09:43 am, David Faure wrote:
> On Saturday 05 May 2001 16:23, Rob Kaper wrote:
> > On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 01:17:56AM +0200, Matthias Elter wrote:
> > > > Sign me up for Slackware.
> > > >
> > > > KPP maintains a world-wide database of telecom providers and their
> > > > rates *and* ISPs and their dail-in settings for crying out loud. If
> > > > we can maintain that, can't we take care of those few different
> > > > setups?
> > >
> > > Those few different setups? Don't kid yourself.
> >
> > Okay, maybe I shouldn't have added that sarcasm. But I still think that
> > if we can maintain all the KPP stuff, we can also find the people willing
> > to write distribution specific stuff.
>
> This is nonsense, sorry.
> 1 - ask Harri: maintaining this kppp stuff is a nightmare, and he keeps
> trying to find a solution for not having to do all this by himself.
> There was the idea of a webpage where people could upload and download
> that stuff, but that takes quite some work to setup. Waiting for that,
> he keeps receiving submissions from people everywhere (the number of
> "supported" ISPs in kppp is **far** from the real number of different
> ISPs in the world !), and has to incorporate them by hand into the CVS,
> which takes time, and is a really boring job.
> 2 - ISPs and system configuration are two quite different things.
>
> I wish there was a way for KDE to configure the system. But for me
> the best way to do that would be to help distributors / unixes
> unify the system configuration in the first place.

I bet it's a nightmare, because the distributors like to go out of their way 
at making our job difficult.  It's simple though, if they don't support this 
config tool, their loss, and their disadvantage, because they'll be the ones 
losing out on a nice config tool, not to mention customers and market share.

I'm doing this for the users that are lucky enough to use a sensible distro, 
or a distro that I use.

-- 
Charles Samuels <charles@kde.org>
K Desktop Environment
"The people. Could you patent the sun?"
 -- Jonas E. Salk, when asked who owned the patent on his polio vaccine.

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