Hi, On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Sergey Udaltsov <sergey.udalt...@gmail.com> wrote: >> an fancy editor for /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf - it's a completely >> inappropriate app because if you know what httpd is, you really don't >> want to click GUI buttons - you want to edit the config file with >> vi(1) or whatever your editor of choice is. Same goes for a lot of >> other distro-specific config tools created "because we need a GUI" >> without really thinking whether it was a good idea. </rant> > Err... Personally I always thought that the area where IIS was way > ahead of httpd is the GUI configuration tools nicely integrated into > system configuration GUIs.
Didn't IIS actually add a configuration file after strong demands from administrator? I don't know, it's not important. Now, whether a HTTP server needs config UI or not... nothing prevents anyone from writing an app that does that... It just won't be shown in the "System Settings", that's all. Which I actually think makes sense. I actually regard a stock HTTP server like Apache (or even an application server such as e.g. Tomcat) more as an application, not an OS component. And I think, these days, you'd maybe want to write the configuration UI for a webserver using HTML5 and JS anyway. I don't know. That said, it could be that some HTTP server configuration could appear in the "Sharing" panel, see http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointOne/Features/Sharing - for example, to share your public folder via HTTP and exposing a bookmark via mDNS so it shows up in browsers on the LAN that supports this (for example, Safari and Epiphany I think). That would be handy. Either way, I think this is completely orthogonal to the discussion on whether such a panel makes sense. I'm just mentioning this to explain how GNOME should, no wait, MUST, be driven by design. Not some misguided feature-for-feature parity thing or some PHB-directive saying "everything needs a GUI". In there lies madness. David _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list