A new utility "System Control Center (system-config-control)" !
Ankit Patel
ankit644 at yahoo.com
Thu Oct 6 12:15:23 UTC 2005
Hi,
--- Dan Fruehauf <danfr at matrix.co.il> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 04:20 -0700, Ankit Patel
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have tried to make one utility called
> > "system-config-control" for Fedora. Downloads
> (RPM,
> > SRPM, zipped source) and Snapshots are awailable
> on
> > http://www.indianoss.org . Right now it's
> available in
> > only one language (Gujarati-India).
>
> It looks like a good idea indeed although it needs
> some UI work - I'd
> like to see this in a form of a tree rather than
> tabs - but that's my
> own personal taste.
I will try improve it in that way also.
> However a very quick improvement that could be done
> is that
> system-config-control will ask for a root password
> and all the other
> utilities won't - that might simplify things for the
> end user.
> I didn't have the time to go into the source code,
> but a question that
> rises is - how modular is that utility? if we have a
> new system-config
> utility - how much will we have to work in order to
> configure it to work
> with system-config-control?
Just add one button in the used glade file and give it
a name which the actual command uses to run that
utility.
> Perhaps we would also like to first probe which
> system-config utilities
> are installed and then let the user choose only
> between them? - The end
> user might be frightened to see a kickstart icon
> without knowing what is
> it at all...
really good suggestion ! :)
>
> Otherwise - keep up the good work - as I previously
> said - it's a good
> idea.
>
> Regards,
> Dan.
Thanks for your helpful suggestions !
Regards,
Ankit Patel (www.indianoss.org)
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