On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Carlos wrote: > Em Sab 07 Dez 2002 13:01, John escreveu: > > > XFree comes with a couple. Debian has another, and _that_ needs some > > attention. > > > > So, Why write an application like Xconfigurator? > > Can you tell me more about Debian tool? > I have bought RH8 today and I will try it tonight or maybe tommorow morning. > > Are these other tools better than Xconfigurator? Xconfigurator works for me. The Debian tool is a GUI. The reason I said it "needs work" is that for some reason it could't find my mouse. It has a nice idea - emulate the mouse with the numeric keypad (_why_ not use the cursor arrows?) but drop-down menus wouldn't stay dropped down. Before writing yet another tool, check out what's around and see what they do and don't do. Quite likely Slackware, SuSE and Mandrake have tools too. And, don't forget Caldera, Turbolinux, the Brazillian distro whose name escapes me for the moment. Probably, fixing an existing tool can be done more quickly than writing a new one from scratch. Even if not, examining them will be instructive. Red Hat has a replacement for Xconfigurator, but Chris K isn't entirely happy with it. It might be that this has the potential to be the best of the lot (it's newest), though unless Red Hat's form has improved documentation may be sparse. _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list Redhat-devel-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
