Re: FN-FORUM: 'best' linux distro for windows networks

date posted 17th January 2004 20:43

Grzegorz BRZESKI wrote:
>> Personally, I would like to see application authors writing X based
>> configuration utilities themselves using a standard framework (and
>> not adding config options without making them editable from the gui)
>
> Most of the application authors don't use X Window System, so they
> are not bothered to write the appropirate GUI. Anyway for most of
> them it's more important to keep the application stable and add new
> features than worry about the configuration GUI. Saying that it's
> much easier for the author to add new options when the configuration
> is in text file and he doesn't have to spend extra time to rewrite
> the configuration GUI each time.

That's why I mentioned using a standard framework, something could be cooked
up that would allow developers to quickly create / add all the relevant
options to a set of dialogues, the backend presents these to the user (with
all other dialogues for other apps, kinda like a control panel) and matches
the options to the relevant config files. Something as quick and easy as
making forms in VB with some basic scripting behind.


Rick

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