[Lsacon-development] Re: Kylix Text Parser Developers...

[tapia <ta...@ei...>]

> OK, I don't know GTK (yet). Would there be problems integrating the
> interface with our pascal parser objects later?

There are two GTK bindings for pascal:

http://www.freepascal.org/packages/gtk.html

http://gtkpas.sourceforge.net/ (better, in my opinion. Absolutely
object-oriented design).

> So GTK
> is OK if we can make the "OPascal Backend" talk to the GTK Frontend.

I don't know if we can do it, but I think we must study it. It must be
easy associate a GTK signal (the O.Pascal events) with a kylix function.

> 1. The controls a typical Windows user would expect to see (like
Network
> Panel as you said).

Ok.

> 2. Apps for which there is very poor graphical config support (for
example I
> can configure MS IIS 5.0 for Windows  very easily with the MS
Management
> Console GUI but it is still A PAIN to configure the Apache webserver
for
> Linux).

Some months ago we said we will do lsacon modular. We will have the core
program, and the users could download "definition" files, with the
instructions for configuring several things. It would be a XML file.

Something like this:

<module="apache">
bla bla bla
</module>

> RPM keeps a software database, we should be able to give it a nice
interface
> (like the one on SuSE 7.3). Don't know about Debian but bound to find
out!

Debian is nice for this, we can do it calling apt-get. You write
"apt-get install mozilla" by example, and apt downloads and installs
*all* needed packages. But not only this, it upgrades old packages if
necessary. Wonderful, I love debian. :-)

> Good example may be Ximian Red Carpet which
> automatically downloads needed stuff.

Yes, that's the idea.

> > - Look at the mandrake code for the screen configuration. I like it
a
> > lot.
>
> You actually looked at the code or the interface? What are the things
you
> liked? (Sorry, don't have Mandrake)

No, I've not looked to the code, but I've been using the tool, and it's
great. The day is only 24 hours. :-)

> I'd especially like to investigate the GTK idea because I've seen the
> potential Kylix problems, too.

Kylix uses a modified QT library. If you want to run a graphical kylix
app, you must have this library. Definitively, that's not very portable.
:-)

ta...@ei...
ta...@us...
---------------------------------------------
http://www.eitig.com
http://terminus.sourceforge.net