Cleaning up the Administration menu on the live cd

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Jul 7 15:40:56 UTC 2009


Mani A (a.mani.cms at gmail.com) said: 
> > Here is a proposal for a drastic first cut, dropping tools that are
> > dysfunctional or obsoleted by other modules or of limited use or totally
> > uninteresting for the target audience of a desktop spin:
> >
> > - system-config-
> > Comments ?
> 
> They can be removed, provided the other alternatives are stable
> enough. But do keep a menu item 'System-Config-Missing' with a link to
> documentation pointing to the correct GUI and CLI alternatives and
> other options.

... how is that a useful UI to give to the user? 

Either what we have on the LiveCD is good enough, and we don't need 
a weird 'missing link' documentation item. Or it isn't good enough...
and it should be fixed to be. Equivocating isn't useful.

Bill




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