[OT] Re: How to make service/demon in OS X
[OT] Re: How to make service/demon in OS X
- Subject: [OT] Re: How to make service/demon in OS X
- From: "Alastair J.Houghton" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 20:51:00 +0100
On Saturday, August 30, 2003, at 07:40 pm, Clark Goble wrote:
Other question:
* in Windows XP/NT we have control panel Services,
where user can start/stop service.
it seems we do not have such feature on OS X.
[snip]
Actually it makes sense.
[snip]
While this is fairly technical and the typical user doesn't know what
is or isn't a service
No, it doesn't make sense... you're missing the point. "Services" on
Windows is a grouping of unrelated bits of software, some of which can
be stopped, some of which cannot, and many of which have obscure names
or are in charge of system features whose purpose isn't obvious. It
also isn't apparent which things run as drivers, which things run as
services and which things are built-in to the operating system's
subsystems or libraries. Most users (even techies) find configuration
of Win32 *very* confusing because it isn't easy to find the dialog box
you want (it isn't even easy to know *which* dialog box you want).
From a UI point of view, therefore, said Win32 control panel doesn't
make sense. What Apple have done on Mac OS X, where services that
*users* might want to enable or disable are visible on an obviously
related Preference Pane, is *much* better.
Users or system administrators that are competent enough to know that
they want to disable a service that isn't visible in System Preferences
will also be competent enough to type a command in the Terminal.
Perhaps there is an opportunity for a GUI for *that* group of people,
but the point is that that should be an *extra* means of configuration
(just as Terminal is at the moment), not a complete replacement (i.e.
Apple shouldn't move e.g. the sharing settings to a "services" panel).
Kind regards,
Alastair.
(We've headed slightly off-topic here... if you want to continue this
discussion, I'd be happy to do so *off-list*.)
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