Hi, ext pancake wrote: > I'm pleased to announce the first version of the GUI for the Free Nokia > Internet Flasher > (the 0xFFFF). I named it 'goxf' (yeah looks as weird as the other) ;) > > I just spend two funny nights playing with Gtkaml, Vala, Unix IPC and the > flasher > internals to get an initial working version: > > http://news.nopcode.org/goxf.gif > http://news.nopcode.org/goxf2.gif > > My main idea is to keep the frontend independent to the flasher, so, being > able to > use the same frontend for flashing a Neo1973 or an HTC phone (both flasher > sources > are available).
But I guess flashers programs would be different (0xffff-n800 vs. oxffff-neo1973)? I.e. UI needs configuration for which flasher to use? > Do you think D-Bus is better solution for async communication between process > of > different user levels? I'm not very familiar to dbus yet. But I can change > the IPC > interface easily. Why not just popen() flasher and do communication using O_NONBLOCK on the UI side? > I understand that a GUI for flashing should be as cleaner and simpler as > possible, trying > to avoid stupid confusions to the user and avoiding errors, so, I'm opened to > proposals, ideas, etc.. > > Feel free to subscribe to the mailing list for further discussion :) > > I plan to add support to pack/unpack fiasco images from the same gui. (next > week?) > > I get so much fun coding it with GTKAML. I encourage you to test it :) > > Here's the source of the gui: > > http://news.nopcode.org/miau/pvc.cgi?prj=0xFFFF&leaf=2b622cf2/[EMAIL > PROTECTED] > > To run the gui just fetch the latest snapshot tarball: > > http://news.nopcode.org/miau/pvc.cgi?dist=0xFFFF > > and type: > > $ make && cd src/gui && make > $ make install && cp src/gui/goxf /usr/bin > > (i have to check for gtkamlc compiler in build/configure stage) O:) > > The flasher is executed with sudo by the frontend in background when you > press "connect", > so, keep in mind that you will have to setup your /etc/sudoers file. > > $ sudo su > # echo "$SUDO_USER ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL" >> /etc/sudoers > > PD: Before the 0.4 release I would like to port a similar gui with some more > buttons for > dumping the firmware pieces from the nand and flashing from inside the > device, or using > a n810 to flash a 770 via usb just clicking some buttons. > > Network flashing is also in todo :) > > Have fun! - Eero _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
