-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Frej Rasmussen wrote:
> So why reinvent the wheel? > http://www.gnome.org/projects/gst/structure.html > It's a bit late to mention this now. And you may rather want to consider discussing it on the libconf mailing list. I am not sure if GST supports it, but one of the ideas of libconf is to seperate the "schema" of the config file from the configuration tool, so that if a package is updated, so is it's schema, so the config tool will still generate a working config. > The backend scripts are independant and talks XML to the GUI (or > whatever you could think of) it's even implemented in perl. > > Also a gui configurator might sound 'nice' from a coders view, but it > totally breaks any kind of GUI abstraction other than "change value of > setting X". You can't make that judgement until you have seen the final gui's! The examples in the libconf are *examples*. > Having that as a starting point is the _wrong_ way to do it. > It only looks nice if you are used to editing settings in your favorite > TEXT editor. > > <simplified> > The first thing to do is think of what the target user want's to > accomplish, then make an abstraction model of the problem that works well > with the target user. > </simplified> Well, feel free to contribute, instead of flame, a project that is trying to do exactly that, but starting at the bottom and working up ... Regards, Buchan - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/H6V2rJK6UGDSBKcRAg/IAKCJNzIQ7PaoTR/TiqdGYtsBemoGowCeLNGG XodsIAULU5QMXjcyfmaBx9Y= =l0DV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ****************************************************************** Please click on http://www.cae.co.za/disclaimer.htm to read our e-mail disclaimer or send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a copy. ******************************************************************
