Philip, Do you have a patch for the merge into HEAD? That would be most useful to apply and examine what the final merge will be like.
I want to get this in soon, along with James' work. --d On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 21:14 -0800, Philip Langdale wrote: > Hi all, > > As some people may be aware, I started work on a weather applet for > Maemo (Nokia 770) last week. I decided to use gweather as the basis for > this work because it has a working info retrieval backend and because > it didn't have any unmet dependencies on the device except for > libpanelapplet which I wouldn't need. (It turns out that gnome-vfs on > the device is a second class citizen for remote operations, so I look > forward to seeing James' http work go in). > > To do this efficiently, I needed to refactor the backend code out to > avoid a massive copy-paste mess. Also, as there need to be two separate > front ends on the device (the small applet and a separate application > to show the details), there is an additional need there. > > I also decided that the gconf prefs handling code should be a separate > lib from the actual retrieval backend because it seems excessive to > introduce this dependency on someone who wants to use the retrieval > backend but not use gconf for prefs. > > So, I have checked my changes in (without any maemo specific parts) on > the GWEATHER_REFACTOR branch of gnome-applets, so I'd like to work on > getting it reviewed and merged to HEAD now. > > In the larger picture, I think it's worth discussing whether the > gweather lib(s) should be moved out of gnome-applets as a standalone > package. It is obviously hard for someone to build the maemo stuff if > the lib is part of gnome-applets which won't 'configure' successfully > in the maemo dev environment. I currently have changes in my private > tree that add a configure option to make this work but I suspect that > that would be a bit silly to merge back - but if people think it's fine, > I can do that. > > The changes are pretty straightforward and I've put detailed ChangeLog > entries in, so if you checkout the branch and take a look, it should all > be clear. I humbly feel that it looks nicer than it did before, but I > won't suggest that it's perfect by any stretch, so let me know what you > think. > > Thanks, > > --phil -- Davyd Madeley http://www.davyd.id.au/ 08B0 341A 0B9B 08BB 2118 C060 2EDD BB4F 5191 6CDA _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
