On Saturday 08 November 2008 08:56:28 Andrew Flegg wrote: > No, it's not wagging the dog. If a user needs to open a terminal, > create a configuration file and run something from the command line; I > *strongly* believe it's outside the scope of the Application Manager. > > Since there's a requirement to use the terminal to configure it, it is > no extra step to require the user to use apt-get to install it.
I see your point but I don't quite agree. Xterm is a standard part of the tablet and I think command line utilities have a place in AppMgr. An obvious example is ssh! And possibly most of the applications which will go into the developer tools category. I don't think we really want to be encouraging people to use apt-get, particularly while "apt-get upgrade" can break your system. But I do think that there should be a category specifically for command line tools so that people who do not use the command line don't have to waste time on them. And I also agree that a GUI configuration dialogue for a system tool is much better than expecting someone to edit a config file. Graham _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
