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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: System Modules for Control Centre
From:       Henrique Pinto <stampede () coltec ! ufmg ! br>
Date:       2003-06-21 15:29:16
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Philip Scott wrote:
> I think in principle, this is a marvellous idea, but the problem is, this
> is not nearly as simple as it sounds. Every distribution keeps its
> configuration files in a slightly different place, the boot scripts being
> the least standardised. A few distribitions do make some efforts to add
> modules like these; for example redhat includes an interface to configure
> it's ftp daemon. The kernel modules stuff could certainly work, and I think
> is a good idea - and if you can find ways of achieving the rest in a
> non-distro specific way you are brighter than me!

That may be possible for some things. Having a plugin-aware framework would 
allow us to have a common frontend "linked" to a distro(or OS) specific 
plugin as the backend. At the first run, the distribution would be identified 
and the correct plugin would be loaded.


-- 
	Henrique Pinto
	stampede@coltec.ufmg.br

 
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