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[coLinux-devel] [ colinux-Feature Requests-1898496 ] prepackaged GUI image
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From: SourceForge.net <no...@so...> - 2008-08-29 18:50:34
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Feature Requests item #1898496, was opened at 2008-02-21 09:05 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by henryn You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=622066&aid=1898496&group_id=98788 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: None Group: None Status: Open Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: prepackaged GUI image Initial Comment: The slashdot discussion (http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/04/04/12/211236.shtml?tid=106) shows quite well that many users would find it easier if there was a prepackaged version that comes with all the necessary programs and configs to easily run a UI (i.e. X11/KDE) version on top of coLinux. Something like this would preferably come with the necessary X server for the windows side of things and be sufficiently preconfigured ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Henry N. (henryn) Date: 2008-08-29 20:50 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=579204 Originator: NO If somebody has knowledges about Python, then here are some of GUI scripts for coLinux configuration, that has to be finish: http://colinux.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/colinux/branches/devel/src/colinux/user/configurator/ It's very old. First needs to remove the outdated XML from that. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Date: 2008-08-29 18:26 Message: Logged In: NO The following site contains a listing of available GUI toolkit bindings for python, including a section about UI-building toolkits (e.g. dialog editors): http://wiki.python.org/moin/GuiProgramming In addition, here's a site providing a full tutorial about PyQT programming: http://www.commandprompt.com/community/pyqt/book1 http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyQt PythonStudio includes a full GUI editor, as well: http://www.codeplex.com/IronPythonStudio ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Date: 2008-08-29 08:57 Message: Logged In: NO thinking about it, the most promising approach would probably be to simply implement this totally separate, using a scripting language and a GUI toolkit, i.e. something like python or ruby with GTK/QT bindings. This way, it would not unnecessarily affect any of the existing code, would be very much straight forward and also flexible and easily extendsible for future changes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Date: 2008-08-29 08:24 Message: Logged In: NO something like this would probably be best implemented as a separate, standaline "profile manager", so that creating/editing and deleting profiles can be done via this app, and starting a profile would only entail passing the stored parameters to the corresponding binaries, this would keep the overhead to a minimum. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Date: 2008-08-29 08:03 Message: Logged In: NO see "andLinux" however, usability could still be somewhat improved for users with a non-nix background, in particular the whole setup process should either be more intuitive or simply provide some more GUI frontends, i.e. by allowing the most common actions to be directly done from the executables via UI means, rather than requiring users to pass lots of cryptic options via command line parameters. In this context, it would already be a significant improvement if the most basic and relevant parameters could be configured via some sort of GUI frontend, be it embedded or not, so that running a process without REQUIRED parameters automatically brings up a dialog for users to configure the most important parameters, and optionally save them as startup profiles, so that they may next time select a startup profile or create a new one. Similar to how firefox starts actually: provide a way for customization, preferably using lots of nifty tooltips and explanations and once a user has a working config, enable them to save and reuse configs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=622066&aid=1898496&group_id=98788 |