2008/1/11, Matthias Clasen <<a href="mailto:mclasen@redhat.com">mclasen@redhat.com</a>>:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 10:55 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote:<br><br>> ><br>> > Wrt to system config tools, one option would be for someone to<br>> > investigate gnome-system-tools (at least, get it to work and package it
<br>> > for Fedora, for trying it out), which is also using these technologies.<br>><br>><br>> Are you suggesting making the psuedo DE agnostic system-confg tools<br>> more Gnome reliant?<br><br>Many of the system-config tools we ship are DE agnostic only in so far
<br>as the are just plain bad UI and wouldn't be accepted as part of either<br>DE... most of the tools have been written many years ago, without input<br>from interface designers, and have seen very little UI love since then.
<br>(I don't mean to be rude here. This is not the fault of the respective<br>maintainers, whose primary job is not UI programming)<br><br>gnome-system-tools uses a frontend-backend split, with dbus interfaces.<br>So if you feel like it, you should be able to write frontends using
<br>other toolkits.<br><br>--<br>fedora-devel-list mailing list<br><a href="mailto:fedora-devel-list@redhat.com">fedora-devel-list@redhat.com</a><br><a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
</a><br></blockquote></div><br>Fedora ships GTK-based config tools which is VERY wrong.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek<br><a href="http://liviopl.jogger.pl/">http://liviopl.jogger.pl/</a>