> Btw, what is MandrakeSoft's strategy now when tools similar to drakfont, > XFdrake and printerdrake are included in the desktop environments? > Of course it's nice to have a DE independent control panel, but do you > really have the resoures to give all the drak* and *drake tools the > attention that they need?
I hope they are dropped from draktools ASAP. Because I'm pretty sure there are no resources to maintain them. Look at fontdrake and harddrake. Both or not improved anymore and you you really need to press people to incorporate fixes in them, because they have other things to do. One of the disturbing thing is that many draktools seem to live for a few months and then end up unmaintained or obsolete. Hopefully there can be a focus on maintaining an improving some really usefull tools instead of redesigning harddrake, fontdrake, rpmdrake etc again and again from scratch. Also, a good approach would be to take a KDE config tool and build a gtk/curses front-end for it and vice-versa. In that way u still can use it under multiple environments. Trouble is that this is not always very easy. Danny
