Re: GUI Configuration tool for main Debian window managers

2015-01-06 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 6 janvier 2015 11:26 +0100, Hans  : > Sorry, that was what I was told. However, the developer(s) are offering an > actual debian package, which can be installed without any problem. > > What is so hard. to add it into the debian repo again? Because it needs a maintainer that will fix problem

Re: GUI Configuration tool for main Debian window managers

2015-01-06 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 06 Jan 2015 10:56:12 +0100 Hans wrote: > There was webmin/usermin for a long time in debian, until it was > kicked off. The repo masters claimed, bacaus of "bad coding". They > named ist "Spaghetti code" or similar. Webmin suffered the same problems as many other tools aiming to do this

Re: GUI Configuration tool for main Debian window managers

2015-01-06 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Dominique Dumont (2015-01-06 09:08:41) > On Tuesday 06 January 2015 11:52:15 Paul Wise wrote: > > Personally I don't think this is a feasible project, there are too many > > opinions on how to configure software and too much software with more > > complex configuration (such as program

Re: GUI Configuration tool for main Debian window managers

2015-01-06 Thread Simon McVittie
On 05/01/15 18:17, john Lutz wrote: > I was wondering how one would one go about building > a GUI tool to cover every imaginable setting via a GUI > interface for the majority of standard live and other installed > Debian distribtion? I'd provide a terminal emulator, a documentation browser, a dec

Re: GUI Configuration tool for main Debian window managers

2015-01-06 Thread Hans
Am Dienstag, 6. Januar 2015, 11:12:45 schrieb Sebastiaan Couwenberg: > > There was webmin/usermin for a long time in debian, until it was kicked > > off. > > The repo masters claimed, bacaus of "bad coding". They named ist > > "Spaghetti > > code" or similar. > > That's not how I remember it. Jald

Re: GUI Configuration tool for main Debian window managers

2015-01-06 Thread Sebastiaan Couwenberg
> There was webmin/usermin for a long time in debian, until it was kicked > off. > The repo masters claimed, bacaus of "bad coding". They named ist > "Spaghetti > code" or similar. That's not how I remember it. Jaldhar H. Vyas had the package removed because he was not longer able to maintain it,

Re: GUI Configuration tool for main Debian window managers

2015-01-06 Thread Hans
Am Dienstag, 6. Januar 2015, 11:52:15 schrieb Paul Wise: > On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 2:17 AM, john Lutz wrote: > > I was wondering how one would one go about building > > a GUI tool to cover every imaginable setting via a GUI > > interface for the majority of standard live and other installed > > Debi

Re: GUI Configuration tool for main Debian window managers

2015-01-06 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Tuesday 06 January 2015 11:52:15 Paul Wise wrote: > There is no standard mechanism to configure all software in Debian, > the first step would be to pick an existing standard and convince all > upstream developers to switch to it. Elektra project [1] has been trying this for years. > Personall

Re: GUI Configuration tool for main Debian window managers

2015-01-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 2:17 AM, john Lutz wrote: > I was wondering how one would one go about building > a GUI tool to cover every imaginable setting via a GUI > interface for the majority of standard live and other installed > Debian distribtion?.. And what tools / standards > are required by suc

Re: GUI Configuration tool for main Debian window managers

2015-01-05 Thread Riley Baird
On 06/01/15 05:17, john Lutz wrote: > I was wondering how one would one go about buildinga GUI tool to cover every > imaginable setting via a GUIinterface for the majority of standard live and > other installedDebian distribtion?.. And what tools / standards > are required by such? Hmm... each

GUI Configuration tool for main Debian window managers

2015-01-05 Thread john Lutz
I was wondering how one would one go about buildinga GUI tool to cover every imaginable setting via a GUIinterface for the majority of standard live and other installedDebian distribtion?.. And what tools / standards are required by such? John