Re: [E-devel] [e-users] Exquisite bootsplash release

[Carsten H. (T. R. <ra...@ra...>]

On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 07:13:39 -0500 Youness Alaoui
<kak...@ka...> said:

ummm... if an app wants to do this its as easy as loading an edje obj and
sending signals/setting text and dragables. that's a VERY thin library there.
you want this for app splashes while apps start up? are the apps that start
actually alive and running the mainloop for a long period before they are
usable?

> This looks pretty good!
> I've been thinking that this could be used for applications as well, not
> just for the init scripts. So I'm thinking of modifying exquisite into a
> libexquisite (which the exquisite tool itself would use). It's basically
> just about having a way of creating an exquisite (edje) object and
> translating those IPC commands into API functions. I think it could be used
> by apps for doing progress bars (with a sort of 'standard' edje specs) and
> generic splash screens (for games loading levels and stuff like that).
> What do you think ? Any suggestions before I start ?
> 
> KaKaRoTo
> 
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 4:37 AM, P Purkayastha <pp...@gm...> wrote:
> 
> >
> > On Friday, February 10, 2012 4:40:33 PM UTC+8, The Rasterman Carsten
> > Haitzler wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, 9 Feb 2012 23:04:00 -0800 (PST) P Purkayastha <pp...@gm...>
> > > said:
> > >
> > > > Is there some guide on how to set this up? I know that Exquisite has
> > > > existed for many years but I could never set it up due to the lack of a
> > > > noobie-friendly guide.
> > >
> > > read README? look at the run-demo.sh
> > >
> > > as such you only want to be integrating this into a boot if you know your
> > > boot
> > > stuff (systemd/systvinit/whatever) and you need to put the status writes
> > > into
> > > your startup scripts or modify systemd to do it for you. (write to fifo
> > or
> > > scoket directly). other than that u need to hack up all your init setup
> > to
> > > start exquisite before everything else (and make sure efl libs are
> > > available to
> > > it at that time) and then send status and done messages from your init
> > > scripts
> > > or whatever.
> > >
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> > >
> >
> > Ah yeah. Now I remember why I didn't pursue it further. I wasn't
> > comfortable with hacking init scripts. :)
> >
> >
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