2 workshops for the conference

Chris Howells howells at kde.org
Wed Apr 30 15:40:01 CEST 2003


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Hi,

On Wednesday 30 April 2003 07:50, Daniel Molkentin wrote:
> 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.

GNOME Setup tools (previously known as Ximian setup tools) has a perl-based 
backend. Quite a while ago, there was an effort to write a KDE/Qt frontend, 
but nothing happened AFAIK:

http://www.gnome.org/projects/gst/

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