[Mageia-dev] The shiny new Control Center

Sun Sep 30 11:14:59 CEST 2012

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+Hi Nicolas,
+> i don't see the point of this rewrite. This have not been discussed
+> a lot but i think that this is a lack of time. For me the prior
+> thing to do would be to write a interactive::qt for mcc using
+> perl-qt4 or perl-kde4
+
+As you know i followed both ways, and i wasn't alone, i did it
+with the help of Matteo (aka pasmatt).
+The task you suggested was not that easy, we shared some code
+Matteo wrote, but we could not reach any qt/kde working
+interfaces. If you think that is the right way, and that was
+discussed time ago in Mandriva also, why has no one reached
+the goal? I think because it's not easy, code has been written
+to work for gtk in mind for the most...
+
+> I think  that if you want to write it in an other language this is
+> more because you have not saw  that all our code is linked so you
+> will double the code base,  the code to maintain, the possible
+> bugs, etc etc.
+
+No that is not true, we don't want to use another language
+we just considered to have also "plugins" written in other languages.
+They could be run as a single applications maybe, and also inside new
+"mcc".
+
+> you will upload it where ? you can use a github repo i think to
+> make it public.
+That is a possibility, yes. But if its goal is to be just a *mageia*
+control center, well... why not to have it in *our* repository?
+
+> yes but our libraries are in perl too don't forget this ( libDrakX
+> ). In general i am not a big fan of mixing languages.
+and only perl is, at the moment. Big goal is to get our things
+integrated. But what we can re-use is in next goal, and i do hope
+help of other contributors here...
+
+> As mcc is in gplv2+ i think you have to stick with this licence (
+> not 100% sure )
+I think that's right, in such a case we won't have any problem in
+(re)using existing software.
+
+> libyui has been choosen w/o real discussions, i don't want you to
+> loose you time if at final we don't choose it.
+That is not true.
+https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Feature:UiAbstraction4mcc
+(This page was last modified on 27 June 2012, at 22:22.)
+
+What i recall clear is that this task was proposed a lot
+of time in past, but nobody did it... Why blocking who
+started working on it?
+
+> better work would be to fix existing one and add new
+> interactive::qt ( or qt4 ). And seeing the != between qt4 and qt5
+> the port to qt5 will be a 'piece of cake'.
+you know i tried and i also tried to be helped by someone
+of our community, but as we're all busy in real life and
+we cannot do all, and we focus on what we can really do,
+i think Steven has chosen a right approach. He always
+said it's not for mga3 most luckily mga4 ;)
+
+Cheers,
+	Angelo
+
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