"Sarel J. Botha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all > > I thought of writing a GUI configuration tool specific for Debian. Quick > description: Each package has a .dconf file, like squid/apache.dconf. This > file defines: > - Different configuration options and what they should look like. In other > words: widgets, like val = var (basicval); val = true/false (basicbool) > etc.
In one way or another all proposal have this. > - How the config option should look like to the user, again use widgets, like > a checkbox for true/false and a field for name=val. Thats a bad thing. Each package would look different. All packages should have the same look&feel during configuration, although the user should have the choise of what that may be. Configuration via a prerecorded database or cloning of existing configurations across a pool are other needed features. > I didn't know this list existed, but now that I do I'd like to find out if > there are any other configuration projects already under way, so we could talk > a bit, work together and not duplicate effort. Have a look at the archive of this list. There are 3 such projects which look promising (one by myself :) and a lot of mails concerning that problem.