Possible Replacements for the system-config-* utilities?

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Thu Nov 8 19:33:58 UTC 2007


On Nov 8, 2007 10:48 AM, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 09:55:08AM -0500, Kelly Miller wrote:
> > here).  First of all, is there a preferred language for development
> > like this?  I've actually done very little to no Python development
>
> Almost certainly Python.
>
> The key reason these utilties need rewriting is to separate the user
> interface (GUI, full-screen text-mode, and command-line) from the possibly
> privileged actions they need to perform.
>
> This should be done using PolicyKit -- see
> <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeaturePolicyKit>.



If these utilities are going to be rewritten, please make it public, I
have a feature that I would like to see in them, and I am willing to
work on myself.


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