On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 08:21 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > Then the linux developers, terrified that someone might have learned > how to administer a system decide they need to rip everything apart > and utterly change it - changes which are never reflected in the > easy admin interface (things like network -> NetworkManager, > xorg.conf -> weird /etc/fdi files for hal, etc). We've seen this with Webmin and Linuxconf. After a while, the things it controls change, yet it doesn't keep step. It could only control things if you didn't hand modify files, as it required the config files to be formatted in a very specific way (e.g. with indented spaces, and special comments, and command options in specific orders). That also precluded letting any other application modify configuration files, for the same reason. The gnome-control-centre, was a somewhat better approach. It was just a collection of icons for control panels. The icons would launch the control panel application that already existed for the application, the application's *own* control gadget, not a third-party thing. Of course that's only useful for configuring the local machine, simultaneously remote controlling a fleet of machines needs a different approach. Such idiot interfaces tend to omit something else - adequate explanations of what you're fiddling with. So they're not of much use to the clueless, anyway. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.19-78.2.30.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
