On 9/13/06, David Zeuthen <david@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Maybe one question to ask is whether it makes sense to have a GUI at all? I mean, looking at your proposed UI, even though I suppose you tried hard, it contains all sort of information that only experienced Fedora users truly understands. And these are very likely to be capable of editing configuration or scripts.
Actually there is a meaning behind it, as you may have noticed behind kadischi there is only JasperHartline and I. I'm trying to make a GUI with simple features at first just to gain attention and attract more contributors and testers of different archs. Recently I've posted a Call for testing under 64 bit hardware but haven't got many volunteers, so perhaps a gui might be user friendly.
I guess, I'm saying that it's a bit like e.g. system-config-httpd or system-config-bind - a pretty UI that doesn't really do everything you want. And if you can make it do the things you want, it's usually much easier just to edit the files in shell. For example, what would happen if I'd want to configure other bits than the ones exposed in the UI? What if I want to make e.g. NetworkManager default? I'd say, just let users edit a script - that will give them much more freedom, to e.g. configure the system the way they want it. This is just what I think, however.
Indeed, at some point we can't satisfy everyone, but however if someone wants to add such feature as your example, we would be happy to perhaps include it. The more we get feedback the more it will make things behind kadischi moving. Chitlesh -- http://clunixchit.blogspot.com -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
