Re: Proposed: gnome-system-tools

[Carlos Garnacho <garnacho tuxerver net>]

On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 09:26 -0600, Ryan McDougall wrote: 
> On Tue, 2004-20-07 at 17:13 -0400, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 08:05:47PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > > (This is a thread-starter for the final module discussion before the release
> > > team reports back with a summary and proposal, which will aim to represent
> > > the consensus of the community. Please be kind to authors, and start totally
> > > new threads if there's a reason to shift off-topic.)
> > > 
> > > Proposal:
> > > 
> > >   http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2004-June/msg00099.html
> > 
> > <polite>
> > While the g-s-t are useful, I'm not in favour of including them in
> > desktop itself until we get further to consolidate the random
> > elements of control-center with the user oriented tools in g-s-t.
> > Along the lines of havoc/seth's top down approach.  The more admin
> > tools will ideally have a similar shell at some point for ui
> > consistency, but probably need less of a top down design.
> > </polite>
> > 
> 
> I nth Jody and Havoc's statements. While g-s-t might be good technology,
> its not clear that it offers a better user experience than what the
> distros offer.

At least the user experience that the g-s-t offer is consistent between
all most used systems (i.e.: linux distros), and this is a key behavior
if we want GNOME to be tied to the underlying system in a integrated
way, instead of letting distros fill this gap on their own.

	Carlos


> 
> Ideally RH et al., could use the g-s-t back-end to implement the
> control-centre changes they allude to so that control-centre remains
> relatively portable.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ryan
> 
> 
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