Fwd: GSOC: Qt front-ends

[Lars Engels]

Am 24.04.2013 13:44, schrieb Chris Rees:
> On 24 Apr 2013 05:36, "Justin Edward Muniz" <justin.muniz at maine.edu> 
> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> Justin I say stick to  FreeBSD-update . My reason is, as Pkgng 
>>> becomes
>>> more popular , a front end for ports will be less useful as binary
> packages
>>> become more popular . Kports is a monster program , you should set a
>>> reasonable goal ,and target dates; which may be hard with a cleanup
> project
>>> .   Also a update notifier for kde that handles FreeBSD update would 
>>> be
>>> very useful .
>>> 
>>> My 2cents .
>>> ---
>>> Mark saad | mark.saad at longcount.org
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Thank you very much Mark,
>> 
>>      I was definitely hoping to get community feedback on this, and I
> value
>> you voicing your opinion. I agree that kports is a mammoth, and also 
>> that
> a
>> system updater GUI should have a way to notify the user of new 
>> updates.
>> 
>>      Any other perspectives are welcome, as well as support for a
>> freebsd-update approach. I am working to refine my proposal, which as
>> you've pointed out is very important. Eventually I would like to help 
>> in
>> all three mentioned areas, but for now I must focus on one 
>> application.
>> Does anyone think that a custom kernel configuration and management 
>> GUI
>> utility would be desirable?
>> 
>>      I will shape my goals to meet the needs of the community.
> 
> Our kernel is actually very easy to configure, so I'm not convinced 
> that
> it's needed; you may be thinking of Linux's menuconfig, but I think 
> that is
> because of the complexity.


It _is_ easy. But having a nice graphical tool which draws a pretty 
table of
GENERIC and NOTES together with useful information about the possible 
options
and devices would be a handy thing to have IMHO.
Let's make FreeBSD userfriendly :-)