Re: [Gnumed-devel] Ok - I'm up and running - project needed.

[Ian Haywood]

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 12:28:37 +1000
Richard Terry <address@hidden> wrote:

> There are many many things within any program/medical records program which 
*Aha* now I understand
Configuration and installation are often linked, but not the same.
> will need to be user configurable, simple things, like how they want to name 
> the workstation, do they want the system to remember their logon password (if 
> you allow this), which screens they want to come up first, etc etc.
> 
> It is one thing for programmers like yourself, karsten, syan, Horst etc to 
> say 
> that configuration is easy, it is another for a GP sitting in the office to 
> know where/how to insert options into a config file. People like 
> user-friendly gui interfaces, it is often their first impression of a program 
> - often make it or break it

A GUI confiugration tool has already been written by Hilmar Berger.
It works well, but certainly it could be made more user-friendly.

> With regards to the login - what 'backend options' were you expecting?
IMHO this is far too esoteric to be presented in the GUI at all.
Looking at the man page, most of these options relate to server debugging
(i.e if your debugging *postgres* itself, not even debugging gnumed)

Same goes for "port". Anyone smart enough to know how to run postgres on a 
non-standard port knows how to hack the client too. 

Ian


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