As some of you might know, 3/4 of guidance has been put into Kubuntu‘s latest release Breezy Badger in the last moments.
Needless to say that we’re (Simon and me) are really happy with that. This is quite unique, since
that’s the first time (I know of) that KDE ships with PyKDE by default, and makes active use of
Python modules for KControl. For those not in the know, guidance is a set of kcontrol modules that
provide editing of the init process (serviceconfig), administrating user accounts, groups
and passwords (userconfig) and an editor for fstab (mountconfig).
At
aKademy in Málaga, usability expert Jan Muehlig of Relevantive has been reviewing guidance for usability issues
together with me and proposed quite some potential improvements. Also at aKademy, I began working on
a new dialogue for mountconfig which shows free space on a harddisk. The last couple of weeks I
don’t have too much time for excessive coding sessions, but also working two or three hours a week
shows some progress eventually. The code that renders the bars works, also for swap space. What I’m
working on at the moment is a bar that shows the pysical layout of the disk with the partitions in
different colours. I’ll probably have to use different patterns also, since that might be necessary
for visually impaired people. No biggie, though.
Nice detail: No bugs that I know of have been reported yet, no angry users that complain about
their system not booting anymore after having used mountconfig. Guess that’s good. :-)