Re: ANN: GNUtooth, Bluetooth "support" for GNUstep

[Martin Brecher]

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Fabien VALLON wrote:
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|>I never liked Configure.app and I think Apple is on the right track
|>with just having Preferences.app where some panes need the admin
|>password to apply changes. Maybe they could be grouped by user and
|>computer settings? Maybe using a TabView?
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| I don't think so.
| This is not the Unix Design.
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| On MacOSX you don't have a lot of device and a lot of MacoS classic
users :)
|
| On Unix like Linux it is quite different.

I agree with Fabien. While having an integrated configuration tool on an
integrated platform is quite nice, it may not be desireable at all on
GNUstep's target systems. With all the possibilites especially of PCs
regarding different hardware configuration as well as settings of the
operating system, a single preferences app would become *very* crowded.

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| One app should do the right thing.
| Preferences == users with no special access
| Configure   == hardware with special access for special configuration
| HostManager == Network with special acces for special configuration

You could even go further and imagine seperate apps for very special and
complex things: like an ApacheManager with different modules for basic
setup, virtual hosts, authentification and so on. Or a SambaManager with
modules for Domain configuration, (smb-)user management etc. (...yes, I
hope someone picks up these ideas ;-) )

NFSManager was already seperated in Nextstep, as was the UserManager.

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| All in an App is confusing (and lies) (it does not reflect what *nix
is) , bloating
| and harder to use + some security stuff.
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Also, we don't have sudo/su-capability in GNUstep. Thus, having seperate
apps for user preferences and system settings is not only more practical
but the only sensible way to go.

Greetings,
Martin
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