Re: GUI Configuration tool for main Debian window managers
On Tuesday 06 January 2015 11:52:15 Paul Wise wrote:
> There is no standard mechanism to configure all software in Debian,
> the first step would be to pick an existing standard and convince all
> upstream developers to switch to it.
Elektra project [1] has been trying this for years.
> Personally I don't think this is
> a feasible project, there are too many opinions on how to configure
> software and too much software with more complex configuration (such
> as programming languages or domain-specific languages) requirements
> for there to be any chance of global agreement amongst Free Software
> developers.
That's why I've written cme and Config::Model [2]: this works on top of
existing configuration files so existings projects are not impacted.
I agree that Config::Model cannot address all configurations (like exim's).
See https://github.com/dod38fr/config-model/wiki/Available-models-and-backends
to see which configurations can be edited with cme. Help is welcome to support
more configurations.
All the best
[1] https://github.com/ElektraInitiative/libelektra
[2] https://github.com/dod38fr/config-model/wiki
--
https://github.com/dod38fr/ -o- http://search.cpan.org/~ddumont/
http://ddumont.wordpress.com/ -o- irc: dod at irc.debian.org
Reply to: