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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    [Bug 113650] Confusing GUI for DNS Server
From:       Marc Chamberlin <marcc () easystreet ! com>
Date:       2005-10-01 6:00:50
Message-ID: 20051001060050.15011.qmail () ktown ! kde ! org
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------- Additional Comments From marcc easystreet com  2005-10-01 08:00 -------
Hmmmm Perhaps you two are correct, if so then someone has seriously dropped the ball \
and made a huge mess of things.... I am running SuSE 9.2 Linux. I start the KDE \
Control Panel then select the YaST2 Modules (Perhaps, I am guessing, is this  some \
kind of third party extension to the KDE Control Panel???) From there I select \
Network Services and then I select the DNS Server which brings up the GUI that I \
mentioned for setting up the DNS Server zones. Does this sound familiar?

When I discovered this above mentioned problem with the GUI for the DNS Server, I \
went to the Help menu to report the bug and it directed me to this web interface for \
reporting bugs. One clue that I will pass along that makes me suspicious and think \
this might be a third party extension (perhaps Novell/SuSE???) is that when I \
attempted to report this bug, via your web interface, I did get an error message \
saying "I don't know anything about kcmyast2. Please submit the bug and select the \
package manually." I then clicked on the link to manually select the package and \
proceeded to report this problem here.

If, as I am now guessing, YaST2 is some third party extension to the KDE Control \
panel, then in addition to YaST2 being buggy in terms of handling the setup for a DNS \
server, it has been badly programmed and interfaced to the KDE Control Panel and this \
"Help > Report Bug on Modual DNS Server" menu selection is yet another bug because \
this is where I was lead to report a bug. Or perhaps the KDE framework is buggy I \
don't know which... (If this YaST2 module is indeed a third party extension, then \
IMHO the KDE framework should be robust enough to protect itself from such abuse and \
I again submit that you may have a bug/problem. Assuming, of course, that the Yast2 \
authors did not directly hack the KDE code but used your "well defined" interfaces to \
add their extension in...)

I am just a poor user who is now totally confused by this GUI... Sigh.. Perhaps one \
of you two gurus will lead me out of this wilderness. This GUI certainly is not doing \
its job guiding me to the right solution, either in terms of setting up my DNS server \
or in reporting this bug to the appropriate authors... (I will go and see if I can \
find out anything about YaST2 if you don't claim responsibility for it...)

Since the GUI failed to guide me, now where in the world do I find the documentation \
for all this??? The Help subsystem reported that there was no "Quick Help" available \
for the DNS Server Module either! (Yet another clue, did I suggest that this YaST2 \
module may be a big mess???)  Oh.. I guess it must be in that self documentating code \
we all have time to read... ;-)


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