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Friday, March 17th 2006, 2:54pm

Smitty on KDE

On the web page :
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIX_operating_system
>
> You can read these text :
> "SMIT, also known as smitty, is a text based System
> Management Interface Tool for AIX. It allows a user
> to navigate a menu hierarchy of commands, rather than
> using the command line. Experienced system
> administrators make use of the F6 command which
> generates the command line needed for complex tasks."
>
> The last sentence of this text, mentionned that you
> can see the text of the system command that is
> initiate by the GUI. This is a very helpful way to
> learn the system command and how linux is organised.
>
> Is it possible that someone add on the roadmap of
> the KDE project this way of learning the intitiated
> system command ?
>

Now I want to complete with this reflexion :
When I want to configure Samba or NFS with KControl, I
use a very well done GUI. Behind this GUI, I suppose
that the KControl program modified information from
the /etc/exports file and on some other file, and that
he restart some program. So, I suggest that these
modifications of the Linux system can be viewed
directly on the screen, or even in a KDE log.

Another advantage of the view of the system command
initiated is that if I want to do something that is
not (yet) done by a KDE program, I could imitate or
inspire me to do it with the Konsole.

Regards.