On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 14:03 -0400, Christopher James Lahey wrote: > On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 17:04 +0200, Carlos Garnacho wrote: > > Aha! I'll sue you! :), now seriously, it might be worth to have a look at > > liboobs in cvs.gnome.org, at this moment it provides GObjects for getting > > info > > about users (besides other things), by using the experimental > > system-tools-backends > > branch (featuring DBus), the infrastructure is a bit subject to change, but > > clearly > > reflects what I'm trying to achieve. > > > > One of the objectives I have for this future version is the hability to let > > the > > users modify the data that's tied to them (i.e.: chfn), so this might be > > used as > > the underlying technology to the about-me capplet, as well as many other > > things > > > > (please note that, being the code experimental, I haven't worried a lot > > about > > making it easy to install...) > > This is overengineered for the task. I like the ideas of either having > a pam based tool like gnome-passwd or a passwd based one. Pulling in > GObjects and DBus is just too much for such a simple tool.
Well, if the g-s-t backends were wrapped like that, it wouldn't be the single app to take advantage, I can imagine a several applications that might be interested: - g-s-t in general - modem applet - netstatus applet (for doing ifup/ifdown) - fast user switching applet - about-me, change-password or whatever And it could even be used for non-existing apps/features like the tipical "connect to internet" dialog when you haven't internet access and are trying to download mail, a proxy daemon for changing system configuration remotely or stuff like that. > Maybe when this library is more mature, this would be a good idea, but > for 2.12 timeframe it's not right. It wasn't a "let's do it right now!", just "FYI, maybe it could be worth to wait a bit for a more correct infrastructure [1]", I should have clarified that :) Regards [1] Of course, that only my opinion > > Thanks, > Chris > _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list