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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: feature idea - feedback wanted
From:       Christoph Neerfeld <Christoph.Neerfeld () home ! ivm ! de>
Date:       1999-02-14 22:09:17
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On 14-Feb-99 Patrick D. Dowler wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Christoph Neerfeld wrote:
>>On 14-Feb-99 Patrick D. Dowler wrote:
>>> 
>>> There has been recently a plethora of sys admin tools hacks* added 
>>> to KDE that I think need to be thought out more clearly. They seem 
>>> like good ideas to people with their linux of FreeBSD box at home, or 
>>> even with their own box on an academic or work network, where the user
>>> is also the admin, but the distinction between user space and root/system
>>> space is what makes unices work. If you blend these too much, you
>>> end up in an M$ kind of nightmare :-)
>>Maybe one should set the permissions of such programs to rwxr-xr--
>>and check in kpanel and kcontrol if the user can execute these programs
>>and don't display them if the user has no permissions.
> 
> This doesn't help with the K->Settings menu unless (1) kpanel actually
> checks the permissions of the program referenced in the exec= line,
> which means kpanel has to parse kdelnks, or (2) they do not appear
> in that menu at all.

kpanel parses the kdelnk-files already and my sugestion was to check
the permissions of the file in the exec= line.
 
> I think gui admin of system stuff like networking, users, hardware
> devices, daemons, servers, etc. would be great but it is a much
> more complicated thing than just adding some more dialogs to
> kcontrol... personally, I think a whole new program is needed and
> kcontrol should contain just "per-user" configuration (ie. stuff that
> belongs in ~/.kde only).
> 
> I also don't think it is desirable (maybe not possible) to write a
> sys admin tool that is cross-platform and useful (maybe even
> cross-linux distribution is pretty hard, having used both slackware
> and redhat :-)

I agree. But I think there is no need for one single sysadmin tool.
Several tools for each task is the best solution IMHO.

-Chris
 
> --
> 
> Patrick Dowler
> Victoria, BC

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Christoph Neerfeld <Christoph.Neerfeld@home.ivm.de>
                   <chris@kde.org>

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