Re: [cobalt-users] Re: Cobalt Wish List

[Charlie Clemmer <cclemmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 08:08 PM 1/7/2004 -0500, Bruce Timberlake wrote:

> Abstraction of services for 1 common UI is a huge PITA and adds an extra 
> layer of complexity and slowness to the system, as hooks for djbdns, bind, 
> etc have to be built and fit into the existing system.  Rather than 
> dealing with each service "natively" you would need a generic way to 
> gather all the info that each service variation might need, and only pass 
> on whatever the actual installed system needed.

Not to mention, if you can't count on a particular application providing a 
service (is it djbdns or bind for DNS?), then you have to work within the 
core feature set across all the supported features, so that you don't 
expose widget "y" to a user when they use application "z" that doesn't 
support widget "y" like application "x" does.

I like Bruce's idea of packaging alternatives in such a way that the 
package owner maintains the UI changes, rather than the core system/OS load. 



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