2008/1/12, Daniel P. Berrange <<a href="mailto:berrange@redhat.com">berrange@redhat.com</a>>:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 04:55:22PM +0100, Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote: > 2008/1/12, Kevin Kofler <<a href="mailto:kevin.kofler@chello.at">kevin.kofler@chello.at</a>>: > > > > Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek < jakub.rusinek <at> <a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a>> writes: > > > Fedora ships GTK-based config tools which is VERY wrong. > > > > Would you rather the tools were in Tk, Xaw, lesstif or some other ancient > > ugly > > toolkit? GTK+ is much better than any of those! > > Those tools should detect DE and then use adequate library. Exactly how > YaST2 does, with success. gnome-system-tools lets you do exactly that. The core functionality is all in the non-GUI backend. The GUI is just a shim which talks to the backend over DBus. So you can plug in whatever GUI you like and use the same backend code . Feel free to write a backend for KDE / whatever other DE you care about... Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/">http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ </a> -=| |=- Projects: <a href="http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/">http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/</a> -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| -- fedora-devel-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-devel-list@redhat.com">fedora-devel-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list </a> </blockquote></div> I'm not an programmer, but I know something about it... -- Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek <a href="http://liviopl.jogger.pl/">http://liviopl.jogger.pl/</a>