Hi, pancake schrieb: > 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
Looks really good apart from the "misuse" of some stock icons :) > 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). That's a very good idea - the best would be to have a kind of plugin API that makes is easier to add support for additional custom flashers. > 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. Yes I think so. It should be quite easy to use with Vala and would be a good choice to do the communication between GUI and a privileged background process. This is a short example how to use DBus with Vala here: http://live.gnome.org/Vala/DBusSample > 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.. Yes I share this opinion: The GUI should stay as simple as possible. Dealing with multiple different devices/flashers makes things more complicated but you can hide a lot of this with a clever application. Automatic detection of available target devices would be one thing, another might be to save the configuration/file selection for a specific device type automatically. Some simple checks if the selected files are valid for the assigned device and partition would rock. Another nice improvement would be adding support for automatic backups before writing to a device. Greetings Florian -- The dream of yesterday Florian Boor is the hope of today Tel: +49 271-771091-15 and the reality of tomorrow. Fax: +49 271-771091-19 [Robert Hutchings Goddard, 1904] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1D78 2D4D 6C53 1CA4 5588 D07B A8E7 940C 25B7 9A76 _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
