[Sugar-devel] Modern Linux trends (was: Re: [PATCH] use ConsoleKit instead of HAL for)

[Sascha Silbe]

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 02:16:34PM -0400, Bernie Innocenti wrote:

>> unified, perhaps, except that access from shell (last i looked)
>> was fairly inadequate.
> So I'm not the only one to be disgusted by this trend?
Certainly not.

> Modern Linux is becoming worryingly similar to MacOS and Windows.
In some ways it (*) already got worse - see the recent Xorg decision to 
use a fixed DPI value.

> CLI support is being added as an afterthought to new subsystems:
>
>   http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NetworkManagerCmdline
Oh yeah, my pet peeve. None of the CLI tools for NM that I tried so far 
were really useful, and this one doesn't look any better. :-/
I don't need a way to script pressing a button on nm-applet, I need a 
full-featured replacement for it. I need a way to _configure_ "system" 
connections, not just use them.


(*) Actually I'm referring to the usual ecosystem around Linux, not the 
kernel itself.

CU Sascha

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