On 19.11.2007 18:28, David Zeuthen wrote: > On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 15:06 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >> Just wondering: Why don't we work towards getting some sane config tools >> (seperated in UI, logic, ...) close to Gnome (and KDE, should there be >> interest)? Sure, that way other distros will benefit from out work as >> well, but on the other hand having stuff as de-facto part of Gnome and >> used by other distros afaics lead to better tools and a better user >> experience, which overall leads to a better "Linux". > This is actually what we've been working on in the RH/Fedora desktop > team for quite some time. The mantra here, as you point out, is both > "upstream", proper separation of the user interface and the mechanism, > access control and, ideally, integration with directory services such as > the Fedora Directory Server. Thx for this (and your work), and yeah, I was aware of that -- but from the current discussion around the system-config-tools on this list I got the impression that other people in Fedora-land work towards a different direction. > [...] > In my opinion, the most important thing to fix with our remaining > system-config-* tools is to get upstream buy-in (ideally merge it into > GNOME/KDE/freedesktop.org/whatever), properly separate the UI from the > mechanism and use things like PolicyKit for access control. Notably, Tim > is doing a pretty good job here with s-c-printer; that's why Ubuntu got > the best printing support on the planet :-) [1] +1, especially for the s-c-printer part Cu knurd -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
