[I'm not on this list so please CC me any replies] On 19 Mar 1999, Robert Woodcock wrote: > > > >(and please, Please, PLEASE!! remember that not everyone in the world > >likes or wants gnome.. there are even CONSOLE USERS out there still > >believe it or not. Some by choice, some by necessity and slow hardware. > >Don't forget about them) > > Hmmm, looks like we're not gonna have much trouble coming up with the > front-end - we already have two, one for tcl/tk and now one for gnome :) > > What we need is a good backend. Something that coordinates with the > packages to actually get the configuration data changed and have the program > use it. >
In the interests of "Gnome integration" I'll toss in a couple of comments: 1) The Right Way (tm) for this to work in Gnome is to write applets for the Gnome Control Center. There's no need to write a control panel application from scratch. 2) Gnome is looking to replace the current Gnome config file parser with something more flexible (which allows LDAP, etc.) - there is room to work on a common library here that all Gnome apps would automatically use. OK that's it. I don't have time to work on this, I just wanted to make you aware of the Gnome-related issues, in case anyone is interested in working on a Gnome frontend. Thanks, Havoc
