Moving guidance to extragear

[Sebastian Kügler]

We, the developers of guidance [g] would like to move guidance over to 
extragear. Guidance is a set of system administration tools that integrate 
into kcontrol. Guidance is written in python, using the python KDE bindings. 
Distro-specific settings are abstracted into different classes, so it's 
relatively easy to make guidance work on various systems.

Guidance is currently not ported to KDE4, this will be started as soon as the 
Python KDE4 bindings become usable. 

Guidance currently consists of the following:

- userconfig (stable)
- displayconfig (stable)
- serviceconfig (stable)
- mountconfig (stable)
- powermanager (stable)
- wineconfig (stable)
- grubconfig (in development)

Most of the tools (except powermanager: one release, and wineconfig and 
grubconfig: not shipped yet) have been shipped for at least two releases with 
the base install of Kubuntu, they are shipped by Debian as well. Other 
parties showed interest in using the tools as well. There might be other 
distros that use the tools that I'm currently not aware of. 
Guidance is actively developed and maintained.

As to the SVN guidelines [s], here's more relevant information:

* There is user documentation in the form of a docbook
* There is developer documentation available in the form of sourcecode 
  comments and inline documentation of the API (not sure how the doxygen stuff 
  applies to python applications)
* The sourcecode has been checked with pychecker, no major issues have been 
  found
* The applications have either been reviewed by the usability team or 
  developed in close collaboration with them
* The applications are completely translatable

I've just moved guidance to kdereview, you can find the sourcecode at
svn+ssh://svn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/kdereview/guidance

Pending objections, I'll move guidance over to extragear/ in two weeks.

[g] http://www.simonzone.com/software/guidance
[s] http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/SVN_Guidelines
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