Talks About Improved System Management Tools
Sivan Green
sivan at piware.de
Fri Jun 3 04:44:59 CDT 2005
Howdy all!
It's been sometime since I last posted to this list,
however I do read all the latest buzz around writing from
scratch the all-rocking-killer-app sys mgmt. tools.
To all of the interested, I've seen all those wonderful
specs and other related discussions , but, I would like to
note that before embarking on tossing lines of new code,
that there _is_ a system mgmt. infrastructure in Ubuntu,
inherited from GNOME , AKA Gnome System Tools.
Gnome system tools is closely following MVC model, which
allows us to either use the current C/GTK coded GUIs or ,
if we wish write our own and use the backends to do the
work in a platform independent manner.
Moreover, Carlos Garnacho has recently started the task of
dbusizing the backends, meaning a developer could
write his GUI in whatever language he wants or manner, and
using dbus objects could talk to the backends seemlessly,
this would also allow for WebGUI integration as Paul Sladen
noted on one of the specs.
Read more about it at:
http://live.gnome.org/SystemToolsBackends.
My questoin is, Istead of inventing the wheel from
scratch, why not first fix the bugs and refine the
backends, then buid on top of them a couple of frontend
interfaces as we see fit? I reckon that could be better
approach, as well as utilizing an already existing code
base which, despite it's glitches, has been already
deployed and is already used all over on a daily basis?
Sivan
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