Robison, Clayne B wrote:
I can quickly see the answer to this question degrading into "No. There is no way to check whether you are running on a Moblin system. You must check for every library and version that you need before you use it."
I guess this question (i.e. the original subject of the thread) really boils
down a Moblin compliance question: If there is a way to identify that software
is running in a moblin netbook or MID or IVI environment (and it is not clear
that there is such a way), what does it guarantee? I assume that it guarantees
that the system is moblin compliant, i.e. the system has all the libraries and
tools that are associated with moblin compliance.
I guess it depends on how you define 'moblin'. In my case I was purely
considering moblin as the UI in which case my test is a reasonably valid
if somewhat hacky way to find that out. The use case might be for some
app that would like to present itself differently if it knows that UI is
present (ie. launch maximized, etc.)
Since at the present there does not seem to be any way to tag a "Moblin system" by looking for some
running process or library on the system, I'm requesting a feature: it seems sensible that there be some way
of giving a software-detectable, "moblin compliant" stamp of approval that says to running software
"you can be guaranteed that the tools and libraries (and behavior?) on this system are moblin
compliant."
Well, there is a moblin-compliance project which is designed to do
exactly this. They even provide a couple tools to test for compliance.
I didn't read the OP as asking that question though. I think he
wanted a runtime method.
Is this irrational?
Not at all. See
http://moblin.org/documentation/moblin-sdk/coding-tutorials/moblin-compliance
cheers,
Kris
_______________________________________________
Moblin dev Mailing List
[email protected]
To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit:
http://lists.moblin.org/listinfo/dev or your user account on http://moblin.org
once logged in.
For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit:
http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists
