On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:20:15 +0100 Florian Boor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Looks really good apart from the "misuse" of some stock icons :) Hehe I would like to > > My main idea is to keep the frontend independent to the flasher, so, being > able to > > use the same frontend for flashing a Neo1973 or an HTC phone (both flasher > > sources > > are available). > > That's a very good idea - the best would be to have a kind of plugin API that > makes is easier to add support for additional custom flashers. Yes. Writing a dbus-plugin interface we will be able to use a single "flashing daemon" for all the devices. So updating and backuping devices will be easier and cleaner. Good for users and developers :) > > Do you think D-Bus is better solution for async communication between > > process of > > different user levels? I'm not very familiar to dbus yet. But I can change > > the IPC > > interface easily. > > Yes I think so. It should be quite easy to use with Vala and would be a good > choice to do the communication between GUI and a privileged background > process. > This is a short example how to use DBus with Vala here: > http://live.gnome.org/Vala/DBusSample Yup I know it, but the problem of dbus and vala actually is that you can only create dbus clients with it. You cannot publish services/methods to the world. The dbus language integration requires some bit of syntax magic that it is not yet implemented in Vala. I have written a working proof-of-concept dbus-server in C, but trying to implement the required VAPI for it is quite hard and ugly. So I'll wait until Vala have full/decent support for DBus I can write the client dbus stuff in the gui, and the dbus-server in C inside 0xFFFF. :) > > I understand that a GUI for flashing should be as cleaner and simpler as > > possible, trying > > to avoid stupid confusions to the user and avoiding errors, so, I'm opened > > to > > proposals, ideas, etc.. > > Yes I share this opinion: The GUI should stay as simple as possible. Dealing > with multiple different devices/flashers makes things more complicated but you > can hide a lot of this with a clever application. Automatic detection of > available target devices would be one thing, another might be to save the > configuration/file selection for a specific device type automatically. Some > simple checks if the selected files are valid for the assigned device and > partition would rock. Another nice improvement would be adding support for > automatic backups before writing to a device. Yes, this is a really nice idea. Using dbus we can design a communicating stream where a "device discover" daemon sends messages and the proper plugins or device specific flasher can hook to it. I think that only Free flashers will be integrated with this design. Maybe if Nokia (any day) publishes a flasher tool for updating their phones on Linux boxes they will use a privative tool with specific UI for it. Feel free to join the mailing list to continue the discussion :) --pancake _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
