On 26/09/11 22:34, Dave Morley wrote:
On 26/09/11 22:18, Bruno Girin wrote:
On 26/09/11 21:35, Matthew Daubney wrote:
On 26 September 2011 21:17, Alan Pope<[email protected]> wrote:
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Ahh, SoHo server... a perennial "want" of many (including myself).
I'm getting so annoyed by this being missing it's starting to become
an itch :(
I'll refer you to this spec:-
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuEasyBusinessServer
Ah, lovely. I agreed with it largely until this....
"The interface will be web based"
And then I wanted to curl up in the foetal position and cry.
BEWARE RANT AHOY!
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Why do people always want these things web based? I'd much rather
prefer something that works simply in a nice easy gui that I could
VNC/whatever into. In order to make things like this web based, you
either have to lose some flexibility and/or can make it really hard to
report back to the user what actually is going on. I've never really
found a web based configuration gui I liked (and I write them for
work).
Well the main benefit of a web based UI is that you don't need all
the desktop GUI libraries on the server, which means that the server
stays a server and can be a fairly lean machine that doesn't burn CPU
to paint a desktop (important for a small office where running a
powerful server 24x7 can be prohibitively expensive and/or noisy).
And considering the size and complexity of GUI code these days,
adding a GUI to a server is likely to increase the potential for bug
several folds.
I hear what you say about web front-ends but balancing the pros and
cons, I would still go for a web front-end, mainly to keep the server
lightweight. This doesn't preclude a standard GUI front-end on client
machines though.
Bruno
Daft suggest possibly.
How about a simple ncursor based cli interface. Light enough for ssh
forwarding gui enough for a novice user to click on buttons. I know
it's not as pretty as some *cough* light *cough* desktops but should
suffice.
That sounds like a good pragmatic solution, we can't have too many of
those you know :-)
Bruno
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