On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, sean wrote:
GUI users don't want to be hunting through text files anyway, they
want nice settings windows and wizards. Anyone hand editing config
files better know what's going on anyway; the current situation isn't too
bad there.
This is not a gui issue, nor is it just an "end user issue". This
attitude of "anyone hand editing config files better know what's going on
anyways" becomes largely invalid when a standard methodology exists.
gconf already provides a reasonable way to change settings from the
command line and via GUI tools. What would you change?
Gconf shows the gnome people realized early on having a standard
method for storing and modifying configuration data is important, to the
gnome platform... We are not talking about JUST the gnome platform and my
guess is gconf would not meet the needs of Fedora as a whole.
No matter what you come up with though, it will be many years before
you see wide spread adoption. If anything, you might consider a
project to create a system-wide config editor that knows all
the different formats etc and provides a consistent CLI/GUI
interface.
Projects already exist http://www.libelektra.org/Main_Page for example.
The problem is not that code doesn't exist, the problem is one of getting
everyone to:
a) agree its desirable
b) Agreeing/creating an implementation
c) having a plan for getting where we want to be "many years" later.
I don't see how a few people can make this happen, it is going to take
some serious influence to make any real world progress.
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