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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: idea for "registry editor"
From:       Eric Laffoon <sequitur () easystreet ! com>
Date:       2001-05-20 15:33:15
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On Sunday 20 May 2001 07:09 am, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have sat here with some MCSE sys admins and showed them KDE CVS, they
> liked it a lot..
>
> While we were talking, some of them asked me about the way to edit the
> configurations - either in user or for the entire system.. I showed them
> .kde and the hirarchy..
>
> Some of them asked me why there isn't some sort of "regedit" for KDE so the
> sys admin can do any changes they want - I said that personally I don't
> like the idea of regedit since it's all stored in 1 place, and although
> it's with backup - it's easy to destory an entire machine with a simple
> erase of those 2 files..
>
> So then someone came up with the idea which I'm asking you about it - and
> if someone wants to write it:
>
> How about a KDE application program which will be looked like "regedit" -
> but it will reserve and modify the actual configuration files - so it will
> be easy enough for the end user or a Unix/Linux newbie sys-admin to modify
> the files in GUI way...
>
> Anyone have any thoughts about it?  comments?
>
Well for one thing moving from one platform to another does require some 
paradigm shifts... and the first thought that comes to mind for me is that 
*nix does not have a central binary registry to corrupt and hose the entire 
system with. It seems that their familiarity with repairing registry is a 
point of positive comaprison for KDE.

Beyond that as Cristian mentioned there is kcontrol. Also there is a Linux 
configuration tool being started recently announced here. I would personally 
show them Webmin which enables them to administer the system over an SSL 
connection from any browser anywhere in the world. Try that with your factory 
NT setup.
-- 
Eric Laffoon                    sequitur@kde.org
A member of the Quanta+ Web development team
http://quanta.sourceforge.net
 
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