Feature changed by: Casual J. Programmer (casualprogrammer) Feature #310178, revision 6 Title: gnome-schedule as standard in Gnome desktop Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Neutral Requested by: Philippe Duchenne (amigaphil) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: gnome-schedule is a front-end GUI for cron. It's easier to use for Mr Joe than setting a cron job from console. IMHO, it should be part of the standard openSUSE distribution of the Gnome desktop. Licence: GPL Requires: GTK+, Python Link: http://gnome-schedule.sourceforge.net/ Relations: - Add Package gnome-schedule (feature/duplicate: 311347 ) Discussion: #1: Ned Ulbricht (ned_ulbricht) (2010-07-23 13:46:05) Who is "Mr Joe"? Did you meet him personally--and he told you what would be easier for him? Or are there some poll results, or usability-study results? Look, if it would be easier for you , then that's ok. Or if it would make it easier for you to support your users. Generally, I think software should optimize for the common case . I'm not sure that this "Mr Joe" you talk about is the typical openSUSE user. #2: Philippe Duchenne (amigaphil) (2010-07-23 19:06:07) (reply to #1) In French, I would have said "Mr tout-le-monde". Let's say the average user. (I think you guess it, don"t you ?) I'm/was a "Mr Joe", and I was a puzzled newbie when I first tried to set a cron job. Now I can use crontab, but I still find gnome-schedule handy to create/review/modify cron jobs as it has a verbose, localized GUI which allows you to select "Every day from Monday to Friday at 10: 20 pm" instead of writing an entry like "20 10 * * 1-5 ..." with (usually) vi. gnome-schedule is not a replacement, it's a tool. Don't use it if you don't need it; having it installed by default will not prevent you to use cron the way you like. I'm confident that most openSUSE users who are looking for a "scheduler" will find it easy to use. (BTW, the equivalent for KDE is kcron.) + #3: Casual J. Programmer (casualprogrammer) (2011-02-23 19:15:50) + (reply to #1) + Hi Ned, if you were the "typical" openSUSE user, most of the features + requiring run level 5 could safely be dropped. In fact, openSUSE as + well as other Distributions try to attract users from Windows, they are + surely needing some comfort, topping that of MS if they are going to + switch. Apart from that, please note: "Gnome-schedule is provided by + various Linux distributions, including Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, + Gentoo..." If you can't be helpful, at least have the decency to be + quiet. Have a lot of fun... + Casual -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310178