[Mageia-dev] [Mageia-discuss] About Mandriva tools future : Host Mandriva tools on github

Mon Oct 4 23:53:02 CEST 2010

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 17:38, Maarten Vanraes <maarten.vanraes at gmail.com> wrote:
+> Op maandag 04 oktober 2010 21:40:39 schreef Tux99:
+>> Quote: yvan munoz wrote on Mon, 04 October 2010 21:33
+>>
+>> > Drak3d : completly unnecessary today for Compiz (and Metisse seems to
+>> > be
+>> > on-stop actually, so no reason to maintain especially for it now)
+>> > DrakDisk : partitionmanager seems to be not ready, not complete
+>> > actually.
+>> > gparted and Palimpsest are excellent (especially palimpsest) but
+>> > DiskDrak
+>> > stay the g best tool i know today
+>> > DrakGuard : Absolutly wonderfull, a real "plus-value".
+>> > Drakups : unnecessary today ?
+>> > Drakfirewall : OK, but maybe integer outpout controll too is a good
+>> > idea ?
+>> > (and provide effortless arptables and ebtables looks ambitious ?)
+>> > DrakSambaShare : initially a community addon from Mr Ginies (it think?)
+>> >
+>> > really excellent tool too. But maybe unnecessary today (as draknfs)
+>> > because
+>> > desktop integration (and servers have admin)
+>> > Drakbackup and Draksnapshoot : please remove
+>> > DrakFax :  unnecessary today (desktop integration)
+>> > Drakmenustyle : deprecated
+>> > Drackoo : unnecessary today (libreoffice integration)
+>> > Drakpxelinux : too strict on paths to be really used by someone who
+>> > knows
+>> > nothing about pxe and mdk/mdv/mga. Please remove.
+>> > Drakvirt : superseeded by Redhat tool.
+>> > Draknet* : please keep it. Best tool today (better than networkmanager
+>> > for
+>> > many thinks, and conman seems to be not finished today.) Ambitious to
+>> > have a
+>> > knetwaorkmanager port for draknet* ?
+>>
+>> Well, luckily it's not your decision...
+>>
+>> I use several of those tools you think can be removed.
+>>
+>> We should improve and extend the draktools not cut them down!
+>>
+>> I would really like a draklirc to configure IR remotes, since that's a
+>> major pain to do manually (especially the first time), I even was thinking
+>> of writing it myself, but never found the time for it so far.
+>
+>
+> that is a good idea!
+>
+> also:
+> * drakups: for serial upses, a must!
+> * drakpxelinux: a must for people who do this, but it does need to be
+> redesigned, because PXE installs don't even work anymore out of the box; the
+> whole PXE stuff needs to be adjusted, imo.
+> * i think people still need drakfax, i heard someone talking about that
+> * never used drakvirt, but i hate redhat's tool.
+>
+
+would it be possible to move drakxtools slowly away from perl gtk?
+Or at least make perl gtk better (and provide a perlQt implementation?)
+
+Because as far as I'm concerned, if any of these GUIs freeze up, it's
+automatically sucky.
+Which most of them will do (ex rpmdrake)
+(Even though most aren't, but this affects usability very much)
+
+
+-- 
+later, Robert Xu
+