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Re: Reworking the GTK+ cdebconf frontend
Date: Sat Jun 23 2007 - 05:47:40 EDT
Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 03:35:09PM +0200, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:
>> I must evantually say i'm disappointed of the way the gtk frontend code >> was nonchalantly modified, without any patch being posted and discussed >> on d-boot previously, moreover proving to ignore many design decisions >> behind the whole g-i. >> >> Because of all the above reasons, i'd like to revert the gtk frontend to >> r47287 ASAP.
>
> My initial plan was to work on the code alone until I would be satisfied
> with it and then only to submit it for inclusion.
>
> Colin told me that it would be better if I would rather do more
> incremental changes that could be more easily reviewed. I then followed
> his advice and started to commit incremental changes in the repository.
>
> What I have done yet is only a first step in a process. I basically
> wanted to have a better view on the code to be able to refactor it.
> It's currently underdocumented, so I wanted to get things clearer in the
> first place. This meant expanding variable definitions and adding a lot
> of comments all over the code. And yes, this made the code longer, but
> that's only a first step to be sure that I would not loose any
> subtitlities during the refactoring step.
>
> I felt a general consensus here, in Edinburgh, from most people involved
> in the debian-installer, that such improvement of the code base would be
> more than welcome. I also felt that they were trusting my intents and
> my abilities to improve the code.
>
> I know how much time you have actually spent on that code, and I fully
> appreciate it. If you don't trust me, well... I might just go on with
> my initial idea and submit a huge diff at the end.
>
> In any case, please give me more time before rejecting my contributions
> straight away.
I see you reverted recents modifications you made to the gtk frontend, thanks for doing so: aAs i said before, i think modifications introduces in 47578 and 47611 are ok, so no problem for me in reapplying again without further delays.
G-I is a complex project that many and many people contributed to over time and new contributore are not only welcome, but also needed, so welcome aboard :)
If you look at cdebconf-gtk-udeb [1] bugs page, you'll see a list of open issues regarding the g-i.
Since it looks to me you're interesting in adding new functionalities to the g-i, here is a resume of the most "implementative" still open issues
-Adding a grahical partitioner to the g-i: oswald xavier started porting gparted, C++ written, to plain C; a good codebase already exists, but the project is currently halted
-Adding a graphical terminal to the g-i: (see [2]) ATM possible options are VTE, ZVT and DFBterm
-Moving specialized handlers for countrychooser out of the GTK frontend, into an appropriate plugin (this requires, i think, also rewriting of related debconf clients)
-Developing a better handler for language chooser, pherhaps as a plugin, as right now localized languages names are displayed unaligned vertically [3]
regards
Attilio
[1]
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/d-i/trunk/packages/cdebconf/src/modules/frontend/gtk/gtk.c?op=diff&rev=47611&sc=1 [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=339855 [3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=401715
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