Hi, Andreas Jaeger schrieb: >> YaST-gtk? > > It might be in Alpha4 but I consider it too early to announce it.
Please wait before including it. I really like yast2-gtk, I appreciate Ricardo's work and don't want to criticize it unfairly in his absense, but it must be 100% ready and stable before it can be included. YaST's reputation is seriously damaged because of the problems with 10.1 and I'm not sure about the impact of including yast2-gtk now. Users have very high expectations about 10.2. They want to have an almost perfect YaST, not only in software stability, but also in UI stability and continuity. Including another frontend now might show the world something false and strange like "we're creating new frontends while there are serious functionality and performance problems to be fixed". Of course it's not true, because the frontend and the underlying libraries are made by different people. But please consider what people think. The first reaction to Ricardo's announcement was: "Just out of interest, what is the advantage of re-implementing yast by linking it with libgtk instead of libqt? Wouldn't the time have been better spent improving yast itself?" http://lists.opensuse.org/archive/opensuse-factory/2006-08/msg00403.html It's the reaction I expected. GNOME users can actually live with the Qt frontend, they have been able to live with it for years and it did not hurt that much. Maybe it can be included, but not yet installed by default so it becomes an opt-in offering for now, like Xgl. Once YaST itself restored its reputation, a new frontend will have better acceptance. We should in any case avoid the impression that new stuff is included prematurely. Andreas Hanke --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
