Christine Tran wrote: > Henry B. Hotz wrote: > > >> As I have said before, I do not know enough about SMF to have a >> technical opinion. However from a marketing and customer confidence >> standpoint it is clearly a disaster. >> > > How is it so clearly a disaster? I give quite a few SMF demos, > bootcamps, TOI, whatever, and reactions are generally positive, even > back as far as 2 years ago. Here are the things which elicit the most > groans, not in any order > > 1) XML > 2) weirdness between running snapshot and recent changes to the service > 3) wordy alien syntax to put stuff into repository with svccfg > > The decision to use XML was, as I understand it, partly due to a free > library and parser; and XML lends itself to a simple construction of a > GUI later on. Any one who's done a home improvement project could > relate to this, perhaps. That ceiling hook for the grand chandelier > might just be a hook for a few years. >
There is a simple GUI already. Launch -> Administration -> Services or services-admin for the people who insist on starting GUI apps from the CLI. It isn't the prettiest or most complete tool, so if you'd like to give it some TLC, it is open source. It has a man page and online help. -- richard
