KDE Guidance missed at Kubuntu 8.10

[usr]

KDE Guidance missed at Kubuntu 8.10. Can't:
- Config graphic cards drivers.
- Mount/unmount hard disk drives.
- Config Samba.
- Config what daemons starts.
- Manage users and groups.

KDE Guidance:
- displayconfig.py - Screen and display configuration (X-server).
- mountconfig.py - Disk and filesystem administration.
- SambaConfig.py - Samba configuration.
- serviceconfig.py - Service/daemon administration.
- userconfig.py - User and Group administration.
- wineconfig.py - Wine configuration.

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

a) please report individual wishes
b) mount/unmount => mountmanager
c) samba => kdenetwork-filesharing
d) manager users and groups => kuser

Closing bug because we don't accept metabugs and because most of the missing features are actually replaced by different packages.

Also, please note that any nomination for released software (in this case Intrepid) would need the necessary changes described and available, not the case here. Nomination for the current development version doesn't make much sense either, because any bug that is not nominated for a released series is targeting the development series anyway.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

I'll also add a few points:

Guidance Displayconfig barely worked with the X version we had in Hardy. I would need a nearly complete rewrite of the backend to work with xrandr to really be useful in a modern X. To work with Intrepid KDE, the front end would have had to have been ported to KDE4. So it would have required essentiall a total rewrite that no one appeared to do.

I agree that the current Xrandr tool is not ideal, but it works better than Guidance would have. The one remaining part of Guidance, the power manager, will be replaced be powerdevil in Jaunty. Bottom line is Guidance is gone and it's not coming back.

For issues like the Xrandr tool being incomplete, file wishlist bugs against the package that can be properly triaged and sent upstream. For things that are still missing (not we picked a different solution), you might consider joining in drafting the Kubuntu specs for Jaunty:

https://wiki.kubuntu.org/KubuntuUDSJauntySpecs

As you'll see, for example, the Wine configuration tool is one thing that's already on the list.

[usr (usrlp-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Hey, Scott!

You can also view this Ubuntu brainstorm idea, and the Blueprint:
- http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/478/
- https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/kubuntu-ubuntu-feature-parity

A greeting!