[Synce-devel] Patches and stuff

[Mattias E. <mat...@si...>]

Hi,

I did some coding that resulted primary in a software manager for GNOME
and some improvements to the trayicon. I however touched some other
stuff to in order to make things work.

The stuff is found at http://www.acc.umu.se/~snaggen/syncestuff/

librapi2_m4.patch and rra_m4.patch:
Minor changes to just install the m4-files, this is needed to make it
possible to build the synce-software-manager.

synce-software-manager.tar.gz: 
This is the software manager, you can view installed files and
install/uninstall files. You currently have to press refresh for it to
fetsh the list from the PDA. For some reason it doesn't work to do this
on the mainwindows show signal, and I want the mainwindow and the
gtk_main loop to start up before I start fetshing stuff from the PDA.

librapi2.pcommon.patch:
A patch to avoid a possible segfault. In the anycopy function a string
that we get as a parameter is manipulated, but if it is a static string
it will crash. I learned it the hard way... there are some cut and paste
in the software manager ;-)

trayicon.patch:
Added sessionhandling, added menu entries to open synce:/// and the
software manager. dccm does still have to be started manually, the
trayicon should probably start it... but this has still to be done.

Since this work makes the synce gnome-vfs module, trayicon and the
synce-software-manager quite dependent on each other (or atleast makes
the trayicon depend on the other two), shouldn't they be packaged as one
synce-gnome package? But I guess that is up to the packagers to decide,
it was just a thought. 

What is left to do:
General: 

      * I18N - Some one should make it possible to translate all the
        different modules 
      * HIG:ify - The gnome stuff should be made to comply to the GNOME
        hig.


Synce-software-manager: 

      * Load the software list at startup. 
      * Add commandline stuff. 
      * Use gnome-vfs (and the synce-module) where possible, to minimize
        the amount of duplicated code. 
      * Add entries in nautilus context menu. 
      * Register the cab-file mime-entry. 
      * .desktop file for the gnome-application menu (and create an
        icon) 
      * Session handling 
      * Proof-read my english, this is probably badly needed.


Trayicon: 

      * Menu entry, to make it easier to start using the synce stuff.
        And since the trayicon might work as the center for the
        synce-stuff it should have a menu-entry. 
      * Start dccm, maybe libgtop should be used to detect if dccm is
        already running?


Multisync: 

      * Automatically select a partnership to use, if no suitable
        partnership exists start the druid. 
      * Remove partnership. 
      * Make sure that 2 partnerships doesn't get the same name. It will
        be hard to automatically select the correct one if they are both
        called the same.


Well that is the todo for the stuff I have been working with, I guess
David has more todos for this and the rest of synce. The tasks in this
todo is not just coding stuff, and many tasks are not very hard to do
someone just has to do it. So anyone can feel free to help out here. One
easy non-coding task that I think is important is the I18N-stuff to make
things translatable, it consists of setting up the po/ directory and
build stuff for the different modules. And if you like to do the easy
coding add init of the gettext and add _() around the translatable
strings... 

David, can you (or someone else) review and commit these patches. And
add the software manager to a cvs module. 

//Snaggen

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Mattias Eriksson <mat...@si...>
Simovits Consulting