Gnome System Tools toughts

[Jaap A. Haitsma]

Hi,

I came across the announcement of a new version of Gnome System Tools (a 
project lead by Ximian) a few days ago. They resemble the redhat config 
tools quite a bit, though they have only have 5 tools up to now (not 
really production ready according to the website but still)

# Users and groups
# Date and time
# Network configuration
# Bootloaders
# Runlevels

See: http://www.gnome.org/projects/gst/index.html
The nice thing is that the front end (The GUI) is distribution 
independent and the backend (configuration files etc.) are distribution 
dependent.

Just some thoughts/questions.

Wouldn't it be better for RedHat, SuSE, Debian etc. to just join this 
effort. It's a lot more effective then every distro provider making 
their own tools. (I see that there's maybe an issue for KDE users)

Are there any initiatives to have a standard of configuration files, 
which are used by all providers. I heard of LSB, but it seems to me they 
  do not standardise configuration files.

Jaap