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| David Moreno Garza 2004-07-09, 5:50 pm |
| Hello all,
Briefly: In the last DebConf at Brazil, some of us had the idea for
creating a Debian configuration tool (similar to those control centers
on other distributions) oriented for desktop/newbie users due to the
lack of some general and _complete_ integrated tool to make a general
configuration.
At DebConf, Gustavo Noronha organized a BOF to talk about all these
things[1]. Although it only ended on a talk, without proper decisions.
We have discussed some ways and ideas to handle other tools, for
example, the configlets, or gkdebconf, config4gnu, as well as other
nostalgic tools (webmin, linuxconf, etc).
The main idea for the (not yet a name proposed and probably named as)
Debian Control Center is to bring users the capacity to make a complete
configuration of «everything» in their systems, with portability on
mind, to let it use on any graphic toolkit (and even with a web-based
port, CLI-port, etc.), and of course with easy and (hopefully) eye-candy
manipulation.
What have it been done? Nothing yet, there are many people interested on
helping on this, although we have no plans or work done yet.
This is why we want to invite every interested person to get involved on
the project and participate in the IRC meeting-brainstorm which will be
celebrated next Sunday, July 18th 2004, at 16:00 GMT, at #debian-desktop
on irc.debian.org.
This effort is also done to impel and work on Debian Desktop subproject.
Thanks in advance,
1: http://lists.debian.org/debian-desk...5/msg00025.html
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| Jaldhar H. Vyas 2004-07-09, 5:50 pm |
| On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, David Moreno Garza wrote:
> The main idea for the (not yet a name proposed and probably named as)
> Debian Control Center is to bring users the capacity to make a complete
> configuration of «everything» in their systems, with portability on
> mind, to let it use on any graphic toolkit (and even with a web-based
> port, CLI-port, etc.), and of course with easy and (hopefully) eye-candy
> manipulation.
Btw, I have an open ITP for yast. It would be well worth examining the
viability of modifying this for use as a control center.
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| Chris Cheney 2004-07-09, 5:50 pm |
| On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 04:47:30PM -0500, David Moreno Garza wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Briefly: In the last DebConf at Brazil, some of us had the idea for
> creating a Debian configuration tool (similar to those control centers
> on other distributions) oriented for desktop/newbie users due to the
> lack of some general and _complete_ integrated tool to make a general
> configuration.
I think that the kde debian subproject (kalyxo) has worked on some
config tools as well so you may want to talk to them as well.
Chris
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| Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo 2004-07-10, 7:51 am |
| On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 04:47:30PM -0500, David Moreno Garza wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Briefly: In the last DebConf at Brazil, some of us had the idea for
> creating a Debian configuration tool (similar to those control centers
> on other distributions) oriented for desktop/newbie users due to the
> lack of some general and _complete_ integrated tool to make a general
> configuration.
>
Perhaps things could be integrated in Gnome System Tools backend, as I
think in other KDE tools.
Cheers,
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Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
jsogo@debian.org
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| Fabricio Cannini Flores 2004-07-12, 8:49 pm |
| Hi creatures!!
This is a great idea!
First of all, we should definitely think on porting
SuSe's YAST to Debian (and .deb of course).
Only if not possible, then we should look at the
Mepis tools (Mepis is a Debian-based commercial
distro).
Only if there's nothing like we want or if it's not
worth the effort of a porting we should consider build
something from scratch.
I'm not exactly a decent coder,
but someone should care of documentation and UI
design, so you can count on me for it.
Best to you
PS: By the way, i'm changing my mail address.
my new address is: segfaulter@yahoo.com.br
--- Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo <jsogo@debian.org>
escreveu:
> On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 04:47:30PM -0500, David
> Moreno Garza wrote:
> had the idea for
> those control centers
> desktop/newbie users due to the
> tool to make a general
>
> Perhaps things could be integrated in Gnome System
> Tools backend, as I
> think in other KDE tools.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
> jsogo@debian.org
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