2 workshops for the conference

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Daniel Molkentin wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I thought about interesting and important issues that we should discuss (and 
> possibly solve) at Nove Hrady. Please send further input so we can organize
> that in the best way. I guess it will also be imporant for the organization of 
> the event so I prereferred to post it now that later. Note that those are 
> ideas, I am not going to organize both, the other one is only sort of a 
> reminder.
> 
> 1) A while back, Matthias suggested KDE integration into Qt ("KDE as a 
> supported pattform for Qt"). This is very important for the perception of 
> consistance (key word: file-open dialog, but that doesn't cover everything of 
> course). What progress has Trolltech already made for Qt4 wrt that? I'd like 
> to propose to set up a "task force" from TT and KDE developers that work out 
> a sensible plan. Should this be done a workshop? Matthias, what do you think?
> 
> Type: Workshop
> Participants: TT developers, KDE developers
> Organizer: open, any takers?
> 
> 2) Under Windows, MacOS and other operating systems, the user is used to a 
> consistant set of tools for basic system administration.

Yes! (Why can't I even set an IP address with a KDE tool?)

> Currently every 
> distribution ships their own setup routines for that. While this is perfectly 
> fine for the setup itself, I think tools for basic system administration (at 
> least for the average set of tasks a home user has, I'd prefer DE-integrated 
> tools (I am thinking of a KControl spin-off similar to KInfoCenter containing 
> applets for (basic) system administration). Those should have backends for 
> each distributor to fit his needs (ideally perl I guess, assuming Perl 
> knowlege > C++ kowledge at most distributors). The other side is probably the 
> marketing side of things (many people buy Distributions because they like 
> their tools, so I guess many don't even want to drop sets of them for the 
> sake of something common. This also needs to be worked out.
> 
> Type: Workshop
> Participants: KControl-involved/interested developers, distributors
> Organizer: so far only me. Chris, can you come/are you interested?
> 
> Cheers,
>   Daniel