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Subject:    Control Center or separate application? Was: Kalternatives 0.2
From:       510077896189-0001 () t-online ! de (Paul Mallach)
Date:       2003-12-31 16:00:15
Message-ID: opr02kwgqdpao430 () smtp ! t-online ! de
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Hi, Juanjo!

> http://www.escomposlinux.org/fer_y_juanjo/archivos/kalternatives_0.2-1_all.deb
The screenshots look nice, but the deb doesn't seem to be available.

Yesterday I had a look at currently available administration tools for kde 
(eg. kcron, ...) and the system configuration tools on several other 
platforms (windows 2000, several linux distributions, ...).

The good: I found that there already are a lot of good tools, some of 
which I had never heard of before. :-)

The bad: There are still some important tools missing. Some stuff like 
software installation is already getting developed. For some other 
important areas I have not yet heard of any efforts.

Many of the administration tools I looked at are separate applications. 
I'm not sure if it's feasible, or even a good idea to integrate these 
tools into the Control Center. While I think that CC has it's usability 
problems, I think that these can be solved. Currently the user has to look 
in at least two places to find a way to complete some configuration task: 
Control Center (e.g. "File Sharing") and System (e.g. "Cron", but this 
menu also contains "CD Burning"?)

What exactly is supposed to be the difference between "Control Center" and 
"System"? AFAIK SuSE has integrated it's administration tools into the 
Control Center. I think it is a good idea to have all options in one place.

What do the people on this mailing list think about this, especially since 
at least some configuration tools will be developed here. Separate 
Application or Control Center module?

Scripting languages would be great to develop configuration tools, but I'm 
not sure that you can use PerlQT to create CC modules and the Python 
bindings were supposed to support creating CC modules, but some problems 
with multiple concurrently running modules emerged. So as far as I can 
see, Control Center modules have to be developed with C++, with raises the 
bar for contributions considerably.

bye, Paul.
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