Proposal: System Tools Backends (From gnome-system-tools)

[Carlos Garnacho]

Any more comments? it could be a shame if a piece of software that works
and is used doesn't get in FreeDesktop just for lack of comments ;)

	Carlos


On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 01:15 +0100, Carlos Garnacho wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'd like to propose the system-tools-backends for freedesktop, it's a
> set of scripts that:
> 
> - Parse the system configuration, returning an XML file representing the
> configuration, this XML is common to all distros
> - Modify the system configuration accepting an XML file in the same
> format
> 
> At the moment the backends support a quite wide number of distributions
> (RedHat/Fedora, Debian, Mandrake, Slackware, Gentoo, FreeBSD, ...) and
> are already being used by KDE or GNOME applications (KNetworkConf and
> gnome-system-tools)
> 
> The currently supported configuration tasks are:
> 
> - Users/Groups management
> - Services that start at boot time management
> - Bootloaders configuration
> - Time/Date management
> - Network configuration
> - Shared files through SMB/NFS management
> 
> So I think that FreeDesktop is the correct holder for this project, what
> do you think? :)
> 
> 	Carlos
> 
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