Hi! Actually, the GNOME System Tools aren't very actively developed currently. I'm the only developer and I'm mainly working on users-admin. So there are really no plans to add other tools, even if we don't refuse contributions, of course!
I think distributions that use the GST ship system-config-printer or a custom tool to configure printing. system-config-printer is working nice with cups AFAIK (using Ubuntu here), and there's no reason why it shouldn't be used as a kind of official GNOME tool. So there's no real need for a replacement in the GST. As regards network configuration, network-admin has not been actively developed for a few years, and I don't really see any future to it. People should really switch to Network Manager, and file bugs there if it doesn't suit their needs. NM is the unified tool for GNOME, and it's getting better and better with releases. I think the GST are going to disappear progressively, even if I try to make they work best in the meantime. users-admin will likely end replaced by a new users tool [1], people from Red Hat are talking about a new time applet for the control center, etc. For now, only services-admin has absolutely no replacement, and shares-admin only has partial replacement. As a general rule, I believe separate tools with separate code designs are better since they allow to adapt closely to the specifics of the configuration object you deal with. Now that our desktop is getting more and more integrated, the model of the GST where you have the same get/set model for all objects reaches its limits and becomes hard to maintain/fix/improve. Is there an implied question in your mail I didn't address? To sum up, if you simply want better tools to configure your GNOME desktop, then you can help new projects I quoted above. Thanks for your interest, anyway! I'd still be happy to fix precise bugs in the tools if that's possible. Regards 1: http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/mclasen/2010/01/15/old-promises/ _______________________________________________ system-tools-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/system-tools-list
