Re: ANN: GNUtooth, Bluetooth 'support' for GNUstep

[Nicolas Roard]

On 2003-05-13 21:54:31 +0000 Pete French <pete@twisted.org.uk> wrote:

> > Configure.app - for system/workstation configuration or setup
>
> Thus we dont need this - setting up the operating system is not the business
> of GNUstep and cant be done in a protbale way anyway. Not to match OpenStep's
> Configure.app anyway.

Preferences.app isn't any more a GNUstep business per se. It's the business of 
an eventual Desktop based on GNUstep...

my .2 euros : Preferences.app should be here to configure simple things for 
applications,
Configure.app for all the hardware things, and you could have others specific
applications for configurations which would be too complex to fit rightly in 
Preferences.app ..

> FWIW I thought Configure.app was a great thing - and what was in it
> definitely does not belong in preferences. But it was only on
> Intel operating systems - it had no place on machines where the hardware
> was known and thats why its not on OSX... you dont have the problems on
> custom built hadware that Configure.app was designed to solve.

half-right, because the vast majority of computers now aren't build in one 
immuable way... even on mac you could replace your video card, am I wrong ?

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Nicolas Roard