Re: Latest Mandrake
>>"Eray" == Eray Ozkural (exa) <erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr> writes:
Eray> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>>
>> >>"Eray" == Eray Ozkural (exa) <erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr> writes:
>>
Eray> They use that drakconfig thing (which looks like a linuxconfig
Eray> frontend.. correct me if I'm wrong) that works surprisingly
Eray> well.
>>
>> Can you use command line editors to modify configurations and
>> still use the slicing, dicing front end? the ability to use ae in
>> rescue mode has come in handy at times.
>>
Eray> Looks like that, the UIs write output to config files which you
Eray> can edit, but it was easier to use the front ends.
Well, easier is highly subjective. I am not convinced yet that
the GUI based stuff is an actuall improvement; in putting together
her tenure package, my wife had set up a header to show some details
and a horizontal rule. When trying to replicate that in another
document in the package, we couldn't -- we did not remember what
path down the menu system we had taken. Took us a couple of hours to
recreate the headers just right.
Anyway, what you said is good news. So, One can set up things
with the front end, and edit it with ae in an emergency. Can we then
go back to using the front end? Or shall the front end discard our
hand crafted changes?
Eray> Anyway, my point wasn't about a particular case. I think we should have
Eray> a volunteer group that tracks down other OSs with respect to usability.
Eray> Some kind of a co-ordination page, articles, software, etc. Getting
Eray> feedback/requests from users. Perhaps some of the new Debian related
Eray> websites could help. I dunno.
Go for it. I am looking forward to your report.
manoj
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