Re: GUI Configuration tool for main Debian window managers

2015-01-06 Thread Hans
Am Dienstag, 6. Januar 2015, 11:52:15 schrieb Paul Wise: On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 2:17 AM, john Lutz wrote: I was wondering how one would one go about building a GUI tool to cover every imaginable setting via a GUI interface for the majority of standard live and other installed Debian

Re: GUI Configuration tool for main Debian window managers

2015-01-06 Thread Sebastiaan Couwenberg
There was webmin/usermin for a long time in debian, until it was kicked off. The repo masters claimed, bacaus of bad coding. They named ist Spaghetti code or similar. That's not how I remember it. Jaldhar H. Vyas had the package removed because he was not longer able to maintain it, not

Re: GUI Configuration tool for main Debian window managers

2015-01-06 Thread Hans
Am Dienstag, 6. Januar 2015, 11:12:45 schrieb Sebastiaan Couwenberg: There was webmin/usermin for a long time in debian, until it was kicked off. The repo masters claimed, bacaus of bad coding. They named ist Spaghetti code or similar. That's not how I remember it. Jaldhar H. Vyas had

Re: GUI Configuration tool for main Debian window managers

2015-01-06 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 06 Jan 2015 10:56:12 +0100 Hans hans.ullr...@loop.de wrote: There was webmin/usermin for a long time in debian, until it was kicked off. The repo masters claimed, bacaus of bad coding. They named ist Spaghetti code or similar. Webmin suffered the same problems as many other tools

Re: GUI Configuration tool for main Debian window managers

2015-01-06 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Dominique Dumont (2015-01-06 09:08:41) On Tuesday 06 January 2015 11:52:15 Paul Wise wrote: Personally I don't think this is a feasible project, there are too many opinions on how to configure software and too much software with more complex configuration (such as programming

Re: GUI Configuration tool for main Debian window managers

2015-01-06 Thread Simon McVittie
On 05/01/15 18:17, john Lutz wrote: I was wondering how one would one go about building a GUI tool to cover every imaginable setting via a GUI interface for the majority of standard live and other installed Debian distribtion? I'd provide a terminal emulator, a documentation browser, a decent

Re: GUI Configuration tool for main Debian window managers

2015-01-06 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Tuesday 06 January 2015 11:52:15 Paul Wise wrote: There is no standard mechanism to configure all software in Debian, the first step would be to pick an existing standard and convince all upstream developers to switch to it. Elektra project [1] has been trying this for years. Personally I

Re: GUI Configuration tool for main Debian window managers

2015-01-06 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 6 janvier 2015 11:26 +0100, Hans hans.ullr...@loop.de : Sorry, that was what I was told. However, the developer(s) are offering an actual debian package, which can be installed without any problem. What is so hard. to add it into the debian repo again? Because it needs a maintainer that

Re: GUI Configuration tool for main Debian window managers

2015-01-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 2:17 AM, john Lutz wrote: I was wondering how one would one go about building a GUI tool to cover every imaginable setting via a GUI interface for the majority of standard live and other installed Debian distribtion?.. And what tools / standards are required by such?

Re: GUI Configuration tool for main Debian window managers

2015-01-05 Thread Riley Baird
On 06/01/15 05:17, john Lutz wrote: I was wondering how one would one go about buildinga GUI tool to cover every imaginable setting via a GUIinterface for the majority of standard live and other installedDebian distribtion?.. And what tools / standards are required by such? Hmm... each GUI

GUI Configuration tool for main Debian window managers

2015-01-05 Thread john Lutz
I was wondering how one would one go about buildinga GUI tool to cover every imaginable setting via a GUIinterface for the majority of standard live and other installedDebian distribtion?.. And what tools / standards are required by such? John