On Sunday 10 November 2002 03:20 am, Florent BERANGER wrote: > > > > I agree that the Mandrake config tools ought to be integrated into the > > KDE or Gnome control centers. What would be super-nice icing-on-the-cake > > kind of stuff would be if they'd do a Qt front-end to the tools so they > > blend with the KDE control center better. > > Gtk library is lighter than qt and, works in all environments, and all > Mdk's tools are already in Perl-Gtk, I agree with Mdk to keep Gtk ! > Gtk apps can be embeded in KDE control center, there is no matter.
Gtk might be lighter than Qt, but if a user has no Gtk-based software, config tools in Gtk are going to be more load for that user than if they were Qt. The flip side of that is also true though, which is why having both options would be ideal. Given limited developer resources though, it would seem logical to me to design for the toolkit of the default desktop. As far as embedding the Gtk apps in KDE control center, it's cool that you can do it, but how is it going to look? > And, if they do that, you'll can navigate in control center (both kde & > gnome) without a mouse, a feature that MCC don't have at this time. I was not aware of that. Do people actually use KDE and Gnome without a mouse, though? > And if kde have tool in is control center that gnome one haven't ? > And for others environments ? In those cases, obviously Mandrake will want to fill in the gap. Most of the folks not using KDE or Gnome probably don't need config tools, but if they do, perhaps Webmin would be a good choice, since it's environment-neutral. > Which ones ? I don't see. > Take the exemple of Drakxres who works better and have many > more fonctionnalities than kxconfig. To each his own, I guess. I think kxconfig is just fine, and I don't see any major missing functionality in it. > > Oh, while we're on the topic, I'll state my opinion that linuxconf was > > the biggest piece of crap I have ever tried to use to configure a system, > > and I Hmm, I take it by your lack of argument here that you're not a linuxconf fan either? :) -- Brian Smith
