Re: Proposed: gnome-nettool

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 17:17 -0400, Seth Nickell wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 18:57 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 15:27 -0400, Seth Nickell wrote:
> > > > I like the application and expect it to be widely used, but don't
> > > > see it as an essential part of the desktop.  It seems fine living in
> > > > a 5th toe environment with the majority of the apps and config
> > > > tools.
> > > 
> > > Agreed. Combined with the system-tools (which AFAIK are mostly
> > > sysadmin focused), if we had enough sysadmin tools (esp if we got
> > > things like a GConf system policy editor and other much needed things
> > > like that) it might make sense to have a System Management bundle like
> > > 5th toe. Or have "5th Toe Sysadmin" or something.
> > > 
> > gnome-nettool is a user-oriented app, nothing to do with sysadmin'ing
> 
> What users are you thinking of for this ?!?

Pretty much any user that has a machine connected to a network. Keeps
people from dropping to the command-line, and it's not any worse than
file-roller, or gfloppy.

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