[Mageia-dev] xguest and the display manager

Mon Feb 20 17:49:49 CET 2012

2012/2/20 Olav Vitters <olav at vitters.nl>:
+> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 05:03:29PM +0100, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
+>> BTW: I often expressed my annoyance to see system wide settings being
+>> handled in a DE dependent tool (like this user account setting in
+>> Gnome) while there is a tool with the same function/task in MCC. A DE
+>> "System Settings" should limit its tasks to DE related functions
+>> because
+>>  - DE "System settings" can conflict with MCC tools
+>>  - are only avaiable for that DE, not for all others while a system
+>> related tool should be available no matter which DE is used.
+>
+> Offtopicish: I like discussing with you, your opinion is different,
+> makes for a better discussion :)
+
+Yes, it's OT, that's why I wrote "BTW" :)
+
+> I have the GNOME view on the world: why have distribution specific tools
+> if you can configure it from GNOME itself. That said, GNOME usually
+> focusses on the very basic options.
+
+Oh yes, We are GNOME, is there really a world besides?
+Most systems with this view of the world went down the drain :)
+
+Besides this more philosophical/historical view there is a technical
+background for my opinion, see my first point.
+
+But as I wrote: a side note in this discussion here.
+
+-- 
+wobo
+