Le vendredi 27 juillet 2007 à 14:47 +0200, Arnaud Quette a écrit :
> 2007/7/27, Philippe Normand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Le jeudi 26 juillet 2007 à 19:16 +0200, Ouattara Oumar Aziz a écrit :
> > > > Hi all !
> > >
> > > Hi Loic,
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Create another plugin (reference to the meeting last night) to select
> > > > your remote control from a list, and copy the right lircd.conf (with the
> > > > new name space applied). With the lirc.hdwb, it can be very easy. There
> > > > is just the problem that lircd.conf have the right place in /etc. So
> > > > must some root privileges. If you have any suggestions for this and to
> > > > create plugin. Wattazoum maybe you can help me for this point ?
> > >
> > > As for the plugin for selectioning the remote control from a list, it's
> > > part of the UMC config GUI spec :-) . But the job of managing config
> > > files, must be on the LIRC plugin side .
> > >
> > > I don't know much about LIRC, tell me if I understood well, there is
> > > only one  controller that can be configured at a time ?
> > >
> > > If it's the case and if we need to do this at the user level there is 2
> > > solutions I see :
> > > - Implement a multicontroller feature in LIRC
> > > - create a deamon that will be run at boot time ( so by the root user )
> > > and that will be listening  at UMC request for changing the lircd.conf 
> > > file.
> > >
> > > I prefer the 1rst solution but it's a long term solution with lot of
> > > work and Spec .
> > >
> > > The second one seems quite easy.
> > > wattazoum
> >
> > The way I understand LIRC, you can't use more than one remote at a time,
> > lircd.conf doesn't support that.
> 
> right, multi driver instance implies multi lircd daemon (1 per driver...)
> 
> http://lirc.org/html/configure.html#multiple
> 
> > The daemon needs to be runned by the root user, we can't really cope
> > with that. So every time lircd.conf is updated, lircd needs to be
> > restarted, AFAIK
> 
> same issue than handling the system shutdown from within elisa btw.
> and that is somehow needed on dedicated system...
> 
> > About the LIRC config plugin, the lirc elisa input_provider has its own
> > config (like all components of Elisa). The most relevant option there is
> > the .lirc filename which maps actual remote keys to elisa input_event
> > "actions". Elisa will ship with various .lirc files (currently there's
> > one for streamzap remote and one for the apple remote). Users are
> > welcome to contribute their .lirc files, we can't buy all remotes of the
> > market :)
> >
> > What's the deadline for all this config stuff?
> 
> only the remote selection is needed urgently (for the Gutsy release).

Which means in terms of calendar? I read on the release schedule that
FeatureFreeze is on August, 16th. Is that the actual deadline or am I
misunderstanding completely that schedule? :)


> and possibly the mandatory points to avoid editing elisa.conf, that is
> for the media dirs.

As I told just before the last meeting, Elisa now supports xdg-user-dirs
which is implemented in Gustsy. Media selection within the config UI
would probably still be needed, but having xdg-users-dir is a good
start.

> Are there any other mandatory things on the elisa side?
> the complete config and installation GUIs will come later on.
> 
> Still for the Gutsy release, we'll manage many things inside the UMC
> repository...
> 
> Arnaud

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