Brian wrote:

> 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.

It's starting to get confusing because KDE 3.1 (beta 2) is developing
general (non-KDE-specific) control centre options; as well as Linux kernel
configuration/linuxconf, already in 3.0, there is a new 3.1 control centre
option to play around with the X configuration and another to install fonts.

Needless to say, these overlap with Mandrake Control Centre options and, in
the case of the KDE X configurator, appear to be dangerous to the
configuration set up by drakconf :/

The way things are going the only solution to this confusion will be for
some sort of open control centre architecture whereby a "reseller"
(Mandrake, SuSE, Red Hat et alia) can plug modules of their own into the
core framework and even remove KDE's/Gnome's own, replacing them with their
equivalents ...

Alastair


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