Re: [Lxde-list] [razor-qt] Unify razor and lxde, current progress and plans

[<chr...@su...>]

lørdag den 27. juli 2013 skrev chr...@su... :

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> fredag den 26. juli 2013 skrev PCMan :
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>> Hello,
>>
>
> Hi
>
>
>> Sorry to bother you guys with the same topic again.
>> It's really time-consuming to do the communication stuff, but it's
>> inevitable.
>> It's better to have some consensus before really starting coding.
>> While the razor guys are doing their best pushing razor-qt 0.6 as
>> planned, I'd like to start preparing for the merge earlier.
>>
>> I wrote another wiki page, which is a draft for the merge and hope we
>> can coordinate better.
>> It also documented what we already have (but the list is not complete).
>>
>> http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Merge_LXDE-Qt_and_Razor-Qt
>>
>> Nothing is settled done yet. It's only a draft.
>> Some are just my own opinions and I wrote them down for ease of
>> discussion.
>> Anything can be changed if anyone has different opinions.
>> Feel free to add different opinions either on the wiki page or discuss
>> in the ML.
>>
>> Previously we discussed about using single monolithic repo or
>> splitting razor-qt into smaller repos.
>> Seems that there are no objections about splitting it into smaller pieces.
>> I'd like to know if it's the right time to do it, or we need to wait
>> for razor-qt 0.6 release?
>>
>> We also need to know who is interested in working on which part so we
>> won't duplicate the work.
>>
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> I'll work on:
>
> * lightdm-greeter. I have no plans atm. to add new features to
> razor-lightdm-greeter, so it's mainly a matter of putting it into lxde-qt.
> So should it be a module of it's own (a bit small for a module perhaps) or
> where could it be placed?
> One problem, though, is that it shows razor's pizza-slicer icon. We'll
> need a new icon before we make an lxde-qt release :-).
>
> * razor-autosuspend I'd like to rewrite razor-autosuspend into two
> applications: One monitoring the lid, and one monitoring the battery
> (follow the principle of 'do one thing and do it well').
>
> * razor-screen-locker. Alec Moskvin started this, but I don't think he'll
> be working further on it. He wrote a todo-list (
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/razor-qt/1SXteGRKB7I), and I'll
> work from that.
>
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> With razor-autosuspend split in two together with razor-screen-locker
> we'll have 3 power-management applications:
>
> - a battery-monitor
> - a laptop-lid-monitor
> - a user-idleness-monitor.
>
>
Hmm. Maybe it was a bit unclear why I consider razor-screen-locker part of
power-management: In addition to locking the screen it should be able to
dim screen/suspend/hibernate/shut down.

br. Chr.


> This covers at least what I personally need from my desktop
>
> * razor-config-file-associations. Again - I have no plans for new
> features, so it is mainly a question of how it should be placed in the
> lxde-qt repositories. There may be some issues regarding
> xdg-spec-compliance, but this should be dealt with in the qtxdg libraries.
> Alexander has written most of that, but I'll help out if I can.
>
> br. Chr.
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> Regarding to the lxde side:
>> I'll work on the file manager part and try to see if I can make a
>> obconf qt port (openbox configuration tool).
>> About the panel, I'm willing to work on razor-panel instead of my own
>> poor lxpanel-qt. After I finish my file manager stuff, I'll see if
>> there's anything I can help for razor-panel.
>> Andriy is working on libfm and will make a new release soon.
>> Julien is working on lxsession now.
>> BTW, Julien, would you please document the dbus interface lxsession
>> currently provides in the wiki?
>>
>> Since lxsession is currently more feature-rich than razorqt-session
>> and it's a non-GUI program, I'd like to know if we can use lxsession
>> and make it adopt current razorqt-session features, including the
>> config dialogs.
>> Or if there're objections, at least we can make lxsession and
>> razorqt-session interchangeable first.
>> Comments are really wanted.
>>
>> Thank you all.
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