Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > Not related to the Gui. Is it?
> 
> It is the ui, but not significant work. But I haven't done much gtk, so
> it took me a while ... UIs should in most cases not have jargon or
> contractions of words. For example, "Enter your password" seems more
> proffesional than "Enter your passwd".

You're right.

> >>2)Add a feature to set smbpasswd, either a new entry in the menu (but
> >>there isn't space to write a decent entry, since 'set smbpasswd' is not
> >>the kind of thing a windows user would guess). Maybe a checkbox in the
> >>dialog to set a windows password for the user at the same time as the
> >>normal password, to the same one?
> > 
> > Why not add a modal window like the ldap one? Put an entry in
> > userdrake menu and create a sub window for Samba conf.
> 
> I though it might need to be more visible ...

How about the 95% of users that don't use Samba? 

> >>BTW, LDAP support isn't complete ... I haven't managed to actually use
> >>userdrake to modify ldap entries ... I use smbldaptools or ldapbrowser
> >>or gq.
> > 
> > I'm not good at Ldap thingies so i trust you.
> > 
> 
> Well, it would need to be tested, I didn't set debug levels on the LDAP
> server to catch what userdrake tried to do, but it failed ...

and what is the error message? What happens When you do it manually (without the
userdrake ui -> raw ldap command) ?

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> > Meanwhile, you can work on actual Gtk1 userdrake -> Gtk2 segfaults all
> > the time and is time consuming. 
> 
> I know as much about perl as I do about gtk (ie I can hack, but not much
> more) ... but debugging segfaults probably ain't so much fun. Plus pixel
> wants me to rework the diskdrake resize ui ;-).
> 
> But I would guess a rewrite would probably not make 9.1?

Who knows ? :-) 

> And, while rewriting, it might be an idea to look at something like
> win2k's user manager ... 

It's too hard to find a win2k box around here :p. Will see.


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