System Config Tools Cleanup Project - tools to eliminate/replace

Jaroslav Reznik jreznik at redhat.com
Tue Mar 24 20:13:44 UTC 2009


----- "Bill Nottingham" <notting at redhat.com> wrote:

> Matthew Woehlke (mw_triad at users.sourceforge.net) said: 
> > Bill Nottingham wrote:
> >> Matthew Woehlke (mw_triad at users.sourceforge.net) said: 
> >>> How is having a tool to generate sane xorg.conf's "wrong"?
> >>
> >> Xorg -configure
> >
> > ...which doesn't clean up existing xorg.conf and doesn't have the  
> > helpful 'you need to be root' dialog (and doesn't let you make even 
> 
> > basic changes in a GUI)? How is that better?
> 
> It's a tool that generates a sane xorg.conf. If that is the goal,
> I think it's a better place to start than with a large
> barely-maintained
> graphical framework.

Exactly what I think about it. Better to start from clean ground.
When someone needs custom xorg.conf, he must know what he's doing
so tool that does nothing (only generating template) is useless.

Jaroslav

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