Common Desktop goals

[Michael Banck]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 12:08:48PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 00:25 +0200, Bluefuture wrote:
> > - Working on Debian Control Center:
> > http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?DebianControlCenter

> The other interesting thing missing is exactly what this will let you
> control, a set of requirements I would've thought would've been the
> first thing they would have put together; perhaps with UI mock-ups,

Good point.

> before they even thought about the backends.

Backends seem to be gnome-system-tools at least partly, so there might
be overlap.
 
> > - Working on an option like "rpm -h" for dpkg system:
> > This could improve usability of apt frontends like apt-watch and
> > synaptic for newbie users.

> I'm actually looking at overhauling dpkg entirely; apt frontends and
> synaptic would simply link to libdpkg rather than invoking it on the
> command-line ... they could then get whatever callback and status they
> want.

Rock.


Michael

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