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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: System Configure tool
From:       Charles Samuels <charles () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-05-05 19:39:16
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On Saturday 05 May 2001 12:32 pm, Cristian Tibirna wrote:
> On Saturday 05 May 2001 14:40, Charles Samuels wrote:
> > I'm doing this for the users that are lucky enough to use a sensible
> > distro, or a distro that I use.
>
> The vague idea is nice, the explanation you give is wrong. The implications
> can be the worst. KDE was *always* (and I hope it will always be)
> distribution-agnostic. This is most remarkable given the quantity of KDE
> developers paid by distributions.
I should rephrase: I'm doing this for the users of a distro that either I use 
(and develop this for), or one in which they provide the backend, or one in 
which another volunteer writes a backend for.  If one of those conditions is 
not met, then this tool will not be included in the release for the platform.

>
> "This is for the users that use the distribution I use" is in clear
> conflict with KDE precepts and rules. And puts up for a sure refusal of
> your code. Now, if you - as I get the *nice* vague idea - will find a way
> to write a generic background (a la /etc/rc.config in SuSE) and the get KDE
> developers to build system interfaces to this background for at least the
> 4-5 most popular linux distros *and* at least Solaris, then all can be very
> successful.
That's exactly what I'm hoping for.  As a side-note, we already have a person 
who has volunteered for a FreeBSD backend.

-Charles

-- 
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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