Re: A new utility "System Control Center (system-config-control)" !

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Hi,

--- Dan Fruehauf <danfr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 04:20 -0700, Ankit Patel
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I have tried to make one utility called
> > "system-config-control" for Fedora. Downloads
> (RPM,
> > SRPM, zipped source) and Snapshots are awailable
> on
> > http://www.indianoss.org . Right now it's
> available in
> > only one language (Gujarati-India).
> 
> It looks like a good idea indeed although it needs
> some UI work - I'd
> like to see this in a form of a tree rather than
> tabs - but that's my
> own personal taste.

I will try improve it in that way also.

> However a very quick improvement that could be done
> is that
> system-config-control will ask for a root password
> and all the other
> utilities won't - that might simplify things for the
> end user.
> I didn't have the time to go into the source code,
> but a question that
> rises is - how modular is that utility? if we have a
> new system-config
> utility - how much will we have to work in order to
> configure it to work
> with system-config-control? 

Just add one button in the used glade file and give it
a name which the actual command uses to run that
utility.

> Perhaps we would also like to first probe which
> system-config utilities
> are installed and then let the user choose only
> between them? - The end
> user might be frightened to see a kickstart icon
> without knowing what is
> it at all...

really good suggestion ! :)

> 
> Otherwise - keep up the good work - as I previously
> said - it's a good
> idea.
> 
> Regards,
> Dan.

Thanks for your helpful suggestions !

Regards,
Ankit Patel (www.indianoss.org)


		
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