Guidance in KDE Admin

[Nicolas Ternisien]

No other opinion ? If you agree, just say Yes/+1 or No/-1, just to be
sure this is something useful, and that will help KDE Admin being more
interesting.

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Nicolas Ternisien
<nicolas.ternisien at gmail.com> wrote:
> Fine ! I'm happy to see it's not a problem for you. Of course,
>  Guidance will follow the classical integration way of any KDE apps
>  (kdereview again, ...)
>
>  I have no problem to also give an hand to port it to KDE 4 when this
>  will be planned. We just have to wait that everybody agrees and the
>  moment to start this.
>
>
>
>  On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Sebastian Kuegler <sebas at kde.org> wrote:
>  > On Tuesday 25 March 2008 10:35:05 Nicolas Ternisien wrote:
>  >  > - The approval of main developers of Guidance
>  >
>  >  I wouldn't have a problem with them moving into KDE Admin. The largest barrier
>  >  currently is probably the KDE4 Port. Also, guidance needs testing before
>  >  integration is done, just shipping it with some distro without making sure it
>  >  works is not a good idea.
>  >
>  >  Guidance is supposed to be working well on Debian, Kubuntu, it has originally
>  >  been written on Mandriva (but with distro-independance in mind) so that
>  >  should work as well (modulo bugs and things that may have changed under the
>  >  hood). The code is designed so new platforms can be supported easily, some
>  >  will work out of the box or with very minor changes.
>  >
>  >  All modules need porting to KDE4 (and could make nice showcases for the Python
>  >  bindings then). Mountconfig would also need porting to Solid (it already uses
>  >  HAL), Userconfig at this point only supports PAM (although I've once started
>  >  to add LDAP support to it.) Displayconfig doesn't currently know about xrandr
>  >  1.2 and all the dynamic stuff. Serviceconfig suffers a bit from the recent
>  >  variety of init systems, for example it hasn't been ported completely to
>  >  Ubuntu's upstart. It does work with  Debian's system, and I also ported it to
>  >  work well with Gentoo.
>  >
>  >  On the upside, the modules' code is fairly clean and probably not too much of
>  >  a pain to work on.
>  >
>  >  Unfortunately, lately I only rarely find the time to hack on Guidance, and
>  >  it's not likely to change in a short timeframe.
>  >  --
>  >  sebas
>  >
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