On Sunday 02 April 2006 19:50, Jonatan Liljedahl wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 17:25:57 -0500 (EST)
>
> "Jeremiah Blanchard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello, I was thinking I'd like to work on some GUI configuration apps
> > for Gobo, but I wasn't sure if someone is already doing this or if it
> > would be a welcomed addition. I was hoping some devs could let me
> > know what they think.
>
> That's a very good idea. Personally I'd like GTK frontends, but I guess
> many others want QT since the distribution already is KDE centric. But
> maybe one could use some abstraction toolkit that can be used both for
> QT and GTK? Or maybe use Tcl/Tk? =)
A couple of months ago, I suggested that we take a look at yast and
Guidance (http://www.simonzone.com/software/guidance/). Some time ago, Debian
started an effort to port yast to Debian, but it looks like it stalled, which
doesn't give me great hope for its use in Gobo. It looks like it is difficult
to compile, with lots of fiddly dependencies[1]. The source can either be
fetched through the source rpms (try rpmfind.net) or tarballs at
ftp://yast4debian.alioth.debian.org/pub/yast4debian/
Guidance is still a work in progress, with currently only four modules
ready: userconfig, serviceconfig, mountconfig, and displayconfig. Kubuntu is
now using it, although it doesn't include displayconfig (I don't know if it's
included in Dapper or not). Guidance integrates with KControl, but there's an
initial load-up time of 4-7 seconds (on my laptop, at least). Once any module
has been loaded, however, subsequent modules load within two seconds.
I guess my vote would be to go with Guidance. It's incomplete, but since
it's mostly Python, development should go pretty quick. It's also integrated
with KControl, which is a natural place to put it...if you use KDE. However,
for those who don't, then it's not such an ideal solution. However, from my
experience, people who don't use KDE (or GNOME) are less likely to be
interested in GUI configuration tools.
:Peter
[1] See http://yast4debian.alioth.debian.org/howto-compile-en.html
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