[Mageia-dev] Proposed Feature:UiAbstraction4mcc

Wed Jun 13 15:20:07 CEST 2012

On 13/06/12 22:53, Angelo Naselli wrote:
+> mercoledì 13 giugno 2012 alle 13:59, Steven Tucker ha scritto:
+>> MCC is great, and I would love to be able to admin using it regardless
+>> of whether I am using text interface or gtk/qt. The interface is
+>> completely different in curses than gtk interfaces. Curses version is a
+>> second rate citizen, and Gui is all GTK. A lot of the tools are not
+>> available in curses interface, for instance, I don't see a way to
+>> install software or managing repositories. It would be nice to have qt
+>> version as well as gtk (not a major issue, but would be nice)
+>>
+> Well a proposal[1] to work on it -porting to qt- is already added by me,
+> I'm not a perl programmer so it's hard for me to do the most, but i'm
+> trying to get helped by other people (i got one positive answer at the
+> moment)...
+> I'm open to discuss :)
+>
+> [1] https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Feature:DrakXtoolsReview
+Okay, Ill join in the conversation tomorrow after a good sleep.
+In short however, the beauty of using libYui is that qt/gtk/curses are 
+supported by all modules implicitly.
+Also libYui is actively developed and maintained by attachmate/opensuse, 
+and has been ported to fedora, ubuntu, debian and Gentoo. The biggest 
+issues people seem to have is lack of resources to build and maintain, 
+well using this method we offload half of the development effort (Ui 
+layer already developed, tested and maintained). Collaboration with 
+other major distro's increases the developer pool and reduces the 
+maintenance load.
+
+You are not a perl developeer, what do you code in? libYui is in C++ 
+with bindings for perl, python and ruby that I know of.
+
+Anyway, chat soon, would love to keep the discussion going.
+