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

[Jasper Huijsmans]

On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 09:40:23AM +0100, Carlos Garnacho wrote:
> 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
> 

If this doesn't qualify as a freedesktop project, I don't know what does. It's
used by both GNOME and KDE already? That's a big bonus. It sounds like a very
good way for desktop environments to provide access to system configuration 
if they so desire.

I hope that helps getting your request approved ;-) Who decides on that?

	Jasper

> 
> 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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