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If Mageia Control Center is so much better than KDE's, why hasn't it been adopted into Plasma? All these new distros seem like they are fracturing the community
by jadbox 9y ago
If Mageia Control Center is so much better than KDE's, why hasn't it been adopted into Plasma? All these new distros seem like they are fracturing the community more than helping the greater ecosystem, but tbh I haven't looked too far into this distro/community.
- mpol 9y agoYou will have to ask the Plasma people :) One reason might be that it is written in Perl - GTK. Mageia Control goes way back to probably 1999. I don't understand why other distro's haven't picked it up. Most distro's have nothing in this regard, just an installer and the DE control center. I assume it is politics or NIH, but I honestly don't know or understand.
- Conan_Kudo 9y agoThere's an ongoing effort to rework MCC into something more flexible, called ManaTools. Unlike MCC, ManaTools offers Qt 5, GTK+ 3, and ncurses UIs through the usage of the libyui library. There's a preview release of it in Mageia 6 as "manatools". In addition, development of the new tools is on GitHub: https://github.com/manatools https://github.com/manatools