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Here is the small history of Linuxconf.
1-It was decided to create a "better" front-end to configure
X. The program was called xconf.
You can see here and there some function called xconf_something.
There is still a directory xconf containing mostly stubs.
2-The Xfree team has moved to 3.x and provide a tool. This
tool does not look nice, but still allows easy (fairly) configuration
of X. Anyway, quite many people are working to address this topic.
3-the xconf project was dropped, Linuxconf was born. It was understood
that in order to properly configured X or anything, there are quite
a few other things which must be checked before.
4-The starting idea of Linuxconf: askrunlevel, a utility to
intercept the boot sequence et change it on the fly.
5-It was decided to transform the dialog program (used by
Slackware and many other configuration utilities) into a library.
It was also decided to use C++ and stay away from "easy" script.
6-A lot of work was added to the dialog library to make it self
centering, easing the coding of dialogs. It was still in C even
if the rest of the project was C++.
then time goes by and more and more features has been added...
7-The idea of "netconf --update" came by. This was a new starting
point for Linuxconf.
8-More and more dialogs were done. The old dialog library could
not provide the level of functionality. It has been almost
completely rewritten in C++, allowing mixed type, multi field
dialogs.
It is still possible to revamp dialog/main.c to create a new dialog
program offering the new capabilities of the library. This would
make the Slackware installation much more appealing.
9-It was decided that the package was good enough to be released.
A lot of work was added to the help files.
There we are!!!!