system-* tools' ui independence

Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek jakub.rusinek at gmail.com
Thu Feb 28 17:15:30 UTC 2008


Kelly Miller pisze:
> On 2/28/08, Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek<jakub.rusinek at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Kelly Miller pisze:
>>> Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote:
>>>> hi,
>>>>
>>>> I said few weeks or months ago, that our system-* tools cannot
>>>> descriminate KDE by using GTK.
>>>>
>>>> YaST authors separated UI library, so you [Red Hat or Community] can
>>>> easily rewrite our tools to integrate well with KDE and GTK-based
>>>> environments.
>>>>
>>>> http://visnov.blogspot.com/2008/02/yast-user-interface-library-is-now.htm
>>> Um, have you SEEN or USED the YaST GTK+ interface? It's one of the most
>>> screwed-up pieces of bad UI I've ever seen in my life...
>>>
>> I've seen it and used it. Fast, responsible and very user friendly.
>>
>> YaST-GTK is much better than YaST-Qt.
>
> You're joking, right?

No, I'm not. From users point, YaST-GTK is more readable and better 
organized.

>  I mean, two minutes with YaST-GTK and I'd
> already gotten sick of the fact that it acts like just about
> everything else in Gnome anymore; that the user should only be able to
> reach the minimum of options and anything else should be buried.

You use KDE, right?

>
> And it's a fact that the GTK installer is utterly brain-dead.
>

Don't be rude... Most of people do not require LOAD of options, but they 
expect simple "just works", without hassle.




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