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

Marc Paré marc at marcpare.com
Fri Oct 1 13:31:25 CEST 2010


Le 2010-10-01 07:23, Tux99 a écrit :
> On Fri, 1 Oct 2010, Fabrice Facorat wrote:
>
>> This is about making some decisions about some tools. Some of the
>> Mandriva tools have outdate UI, cluttered UI and even are sometimes
>> buggy.
>> The situation persists since many years already, so at some point we
>> should ask ourself : are we going to rewrite them, notably the UI, to
>> make them be more 2010, or should we use another tool with another
>> GUI.
>
> Personally I don't see anything wrong with the GUI of the draktools.
>
> If imrpoving them means to rewrite them from scratch or replace them
> with inferior tools from other distros, then that would be a big effort
> and/or step backwards just for the estetics.
>
> Substance counts a lot more than appearance to me.
>
> P.S: cc'ing in both cooker and mageia lists is not a good idea as many
> people are not on both lists so the discussion will just split in two
>
>

Ooops, Tux99, it also looks like your post has broken the thread on the 
dev side.

The thread probably best belongs on the dev mailist.

Marc



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