Hi! Dne úterý 24 duben 2007 01:48 Martin Schmidkunz napsal(a):
Hi Francis,
thanks for your feedback :-)
* How exactly will the profiles work? I can see the usecase for when you switch between locations and don't want to enter the same things, but will a profile be compulsory to get things working?
In my opinion it will. Apple is successful with this concept, so why won`t we be? :-) It shares two adavantages: * people don`t need a lot of experience to get their tasks done * nonetheless, we give the user the possibility to configure this profile according to his needs as well
For laptops (or computeres moving along networks) we already do have a solution - NetworkManager. Well, it has the limitation that it has to use DHCP (which is IMO no limitation for 99% of users), but it works without any interaction from the user (I can even connect my laptop to a network I never connected it to before without having to configure anything as root). For advanced users we also have a solution already in place - SCPM. And not only does it support different network configuration, but you can change configuration of other stuff as well (eg. mount different NFS shares depending on the profile). I don't see the need to implement 3rd solution for this problem - the current ones are IMO sufficient. If there are usability issues with SCPM, we should probably concentrate on fixing them instead of delivering one more solution. Jiri -- Regards, Jiri Srain YaST Team Leader --------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. e-mail: jsrain@suse.cz Lihovarska 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 959 190 00 Praha 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz