From kde-devel Wed Aug 16 21:05:31 2006 From: Juan Luis Baptiste Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 21:05:31 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: Not in the face! (Introducing myself) Message-Id: <200608161605.31250.juan.baptiste () kdemail ! net> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=115576238202314 Hi, On Wednesday 16 August 2006 12:23, Vivek Rai wrote: > Also KDE won't end up with two > > > tools to do the same thing. > > I dont think it is an either-or situation when it comes to tools for doing > settings related to networking. > > Currently, we have different tools for doing these setup and the knowledge > lies in the HOWTO documents. E.g. look at > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InternetHowto .. the user will further > have to read https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DialupModemHowto or > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CableDialup or a series of other HOWTO > pages based on his type of connection and hardware etc. We also have a > confusing situation for the user in terms of tools he has to use.. for > dialup use kppp, for pppoe, run pppoeconf from the command line.. for > wireless, try iwconfig, kwifimanager.. etc etc. > > 1) For doing the setup for the first time, a SINGLE wizard like interface > is probably easiest for the user. But we need to keep such wizards very > simple, and just do the basic settings. > I understand what you say, I was just telling you that it is a lot more easier if you re-use code that already does some of the things you need instead of doing it all over again. You should seriuosly consider using the network backend of system-tools-backends for the network configuration part of your wizard, and if possible implement all the wvdial/DSL/cablemodem stuff you want as part of it so other apps can take advantage of it too :) also you should contact the Solid team and ask them which is the current state of the project so you can know if you can wait for them or not. > But, it is a bit late for me to change the code for it now. I really wish > some of these suggestions had come up when I sent an initial RFC to this > list a few months back, before I had started coding. I'm sorry, I unsuscribed from the list for some months because of lack of time and just re-subscribed last week. I would have given my point of view before if I was subscribed at the moment you sent your RFC :( Cheers, -- Juan Luis Baptiste ITAC S.A. -- Juan Luis Baptiste KDE Developer http://www.merlinux.org >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<