Re: Proposal for LAT inclusion in GNOME 2.18

["Sven Herzberg" <herzi gnome-de org>]

Hey Dudes, 

as I'm working on GQ, I'm going to tell you my opinion here once. 

Ross Burton schrieb:
> On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 12:14 -0400, Loren Bandiera wrote:
> > I don't believe GQ has been maintained in a few years. Last time I used
> > GQ it was a Gtk+ 1.0 application. That's two big advantages right there.

FUD, FUD, FUD. Do really want to argue on that level? GQ is a GTK+ 2 
application for more than 3 years now. 

> > It also supports Samba. It can populate your directory for the initial
> > setup. For existing users, you can make them samba users with by
> > clicking on a check box. I don't think GQ does that.

Isn't that a really rare use-case? (Even those who'd use it would just use 
it once). 

> > There is support for doing mass edits. GQ doesn't support avahi or
> > NetworkManager.

So, how many LDAP servers... 

... do you have in your local network.
... support avahi? (If I need to modify the server side to avoid adding the 
configuration, why not simply add it manually to the client). 

My plan on "GQ for Gnome" was to do what the release pages say: keep in sync 
with Gnome (1.2 was planned for the last weekend but my notebook is broken 
since friday) for some time (~12 months) while getting GQ into a better 
shape. Then propose it for the Gnome Sysadmin Tools (though I'm still not 
sure whether having an LDAP client in Gnome really makes sense). 

Regards,
Sven
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Sven Herzberg <herzi gnome-de org>
GNOME Deutschland <http://www.gnome-de.org>