Re: Ease of use and configurability

1998-05-02 Thread Riku Voipio
On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 03:13:52PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > Every program that fetches user-modifiable files to control its behavior > (on a Debian system and according to the FHS, these should all be in /etc > or as dotfiles/dirs in $HOME) should have a kind an associated interface > file

COAS & Debian (was: Re: Ease of use and configurability)

1998-05-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, May 01, 1998 at 08:17:00PM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Branden Robinson) wrote on 30.04.98 in <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]>: > > (I've asked that before: what's the current status of COAS, anyway?) Oh yeah. Bruce wanted to port it to Gtk. Obviously, this has somewhat chan

Re: Ease of use and configurability

1998-05-01 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Branden Robinson) wrote on 30.04.98 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Am I the only one who feels that, to a large extent, ease of use *is* a > technical problem? No. Of course not. How else to explain apt? > I note that on April 20th, the "Gnome System Control Panel Project" was >

Re: Ease of use and configurability

1998-04-30 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, May 01, 1998 at 12:57:24AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Great, I did it wrong... should go to bed. Anyway, here is the errata: > > > 1) There was a very long discussion on debian-admin (I can send it to you, > > Obviously, this should be debian-admintool. Okay. I was unaware of that

Re: Ease of use and configurability

1998-04-30 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Great, I did it wrong... should go to bed. Anyway, here is the errata: > 1) There was a very long discussion on debian-admin (I can send it to you, Obviously, this should be debian-admintool. > 2) The KDE (and Gnome) approach of several little config programs will not > work, Obviously, this

Re: Ease of use and configurability

1998-04-30 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 03:13:52PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > Am I the only one who feels that, to a large extent, ease of use *is* a > technical problem? In the end no one can beat this ;) > This is a somewhat major proposal and would be a big piece of architecture > if implemented. Howev

Ease of use and configurability

1998-04-30 Thread Branden Robinson
Am I the only one who feels that, to a large extent, ease of use *is* a technical problem? This is a somewhat major proposal and would be a big piece of architecture if implemented. However it's something I've been kicking around in my head for months and I haven't yet come up with a good counter