[Compcomm] Settings-tool(s) discussion

[Robert Carr]

That was just rude, and not constructive :/. We all get fed up at
times, but if you can be critical in a less personal fashion, it's
much more likely that things will work out well.

On 4/28/07, John Hess <animacide at gmail.com> wrote:
> This whole http based settings tool sounds like a huge waste of time.
> Servers admins need web based configurations of their daemons.  Who
> else finds such things useful?  Why would anyone use this on a client
> / workstation machine?  Who would run compiz on a server?  There's no
> point to this.  You're wasting time on things that few people would
> use.  You're "duplicating effort" that could be put into a tool that
> someone would actually want to use.  I would never bother going into a
> web browser to configure my window manager.  What kind of
> ass-backwards design is that?  I would rather go into the preference
> system of my DE to configure my WM.  Or maybe right click on a
> notification icon and chose "copfigure" or some other such thing.
> Instead of telling everybody else what they should work on, why don't
> you take your own advice on work on what benefits the "greater good"?
> Until you stop critisizing everyone else you just sound like a
> hypocrite.  Frankly, I don't really care what you work on.  I wouldn't
> even have bothered to critisize your foolish little http settings
> manager if it wasn't for the fact that I wanted to point out how
> arrogant and condescending you've been to other developers by showing
> you a third person perspective of how your comments appear.  Don't
> even bother flaming me back, I won't be participating further in this
> project if it's dominated by people with attitiudes like yours.
>
> Mike Dransfield wrote:
> > Lets not forget the web based settings environment.
>
> > I am still waiting for someone to do a flash based settings tool,
> > I think it will make C and python ones look fugly ;)
>
> > Flash / DHTML / Javascript people should look here
>
> > http://forum.compiz.org/viewtopic.php?t=825
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