I had this communication with nepbabu regarding the freedom toaster...
<boka> SR71-Blackbird, freedom toaster ma help chahecha ? > <boka> SR71-Blackbird, ideas/code ? > <boka> SR71-Blackbird, what happens if a guy comes and says he wants XYZ > package instead of WZY package in freedom toaster ? > <SR71-Blackbird> boka, yeah.. tara still at committment level > <boka> and it's not available in the FT ? > <boka> SR71-Blackbird, ? > <SR71-Blackbird> boka, i think we need a interface that lets users > customize what they want... not only in distros(that'll be real hard) extend > to educational stuff.. > <SR71-Blackbird> boka, i mean we need more committment from mpp.. > <boka> SR71-Blackbird, i think someone already has experience using gtk ? > <boka> SR71-Blackbird, ho tara foss nepal is everyones ni ta > <boka> SR71-Blackbird, or maybe Python gtk ? > <boka> gtk bindings python ko lagi cha > <boka> so you can start of saying > <SR71-Blackbird> boka, yeah.. > <boka> import pygtk > <boka> .... > <boka> yup > <SR71-Blackbird> boka, i know a lot the coding stuff myself.. just > getting the machine part > <boka> so someone needs to volunteer for wrinting the basic UI in GTK > <boka> or better if someone know Java > <SR71-Blackbird> boka, how abt web interface? > <boka> SR71-Blackbird, that could be cool too > <SR71-Blackbird> boka, much better to work with things like requests and > stuff.. > <boka> SR71-Blackbird, so start with what users of foss nepal would > possibly want > <boka> SR71-Blackbird, yeah. > <boka> SR71-Blackbird, i mean everything will eventually boil down to what > you & other fossians want in the FT > <boka> SR71-Blackbird, why not just handle stuffs through synaptic ? > <boka> but again, you need .deb for everything to be handled by > synaptic/apt > <boka> SR71-Blackbird, just get a basic web interface to get user choice > from list of items. then burn it off to disk using gnomebaker or something > <boka> what u think ? > <SR71-Blackbird> boka, yeah.. exactly > <boka> SR71-Blackbird, so you know web stuff, just make a preliminary one, > maybe spent 2-3 hrs and get a demo. show it to mpp and other fossians > <boka> then make a cgi, that get's the list of item as the input parameter > and the parses it. > <SR71-Blackbird> boka, yeah > <boka> 1. Then save the input parameter to a file called burn.txt > <boka> 2. Load gnome baker or k3b with commandline parameter saying load > the files from burn.txt > <boka> 3. Burn it! > <boka> :) > <boka> SR71-Blackbird, discuss with fellow fossians who can contribute. > <boka> SR71-Blackbird, i have exams coming up and also working on open > source project atm so can't help much > <SR71-Blackbird> boka, i was thinking along same lines... maybe i can get > the thing done.. > <boka> SR71-Blackbird, it should at max take you 2-3 days to get > everything working for prototype > <SR71-Blackbird> boka, yeah.. > <boka> SR71-Blackbird, the tricky bit AFAIK is getting burn.txt contents > off to k3b > <boka> SR71-Blackbird, i told something like this Subir dai 2 weeks ago. > <SR71-Blackbird> boka, yeah.. maybe.. for me it will be cgi > <boka> SR71-Blackbird, maybe someone at mpp can help you with cgi ? maybe > write in your favorite language or :) > <boka> SR71-Blackbird, did you get it ? > <boka> burn.txt has something like this > <boka> 1. XAMPP > <SR71-Blackbird> boka, yeah.. i was thinking exact same thing.. > <boka> ok > <boka> 2. matrix > <boka> all this happens transparently > <boka> user just needs to interact once when he/she presses burn button on > the web interface > <SR71-Blackbird> boka, yeah.. it needs to be really simple > <SR71-Blackbird> boka, there needs to be a backend for content adding > too... and indexing.. > <boka> SR71-Blackbird, yup. CGI does that for you. > <SR71-Blackbird> boka, one thing.. can we tag files.. like say we have > books repo.. > <boka> SR71-Blackbird, CGI gets the input parameters from the web page. > Then it opens a file called "burn.txt" and writes the input parameter to > that file like this - > <boka> 1. XAMP > <boka> 2. MythTV > <SR71-Blackbird> boka, samba can go with both windows folder and linux.. > <boka> 3. blah > <boka> ... > <boka> then it forks off another process like a system call. k3b > --readcontents burn.txt --burn or sth like > <boka> SR71-Blackbird, what do you mean ? > <boka> SR71-Blackbird, burn.txt is the file that contains what users have > selected in their web interface. did you get it ?" > <boka> SR71-Blackbird, then when user finishes burning, delete burn.txt > <boka> SR71-Blackbird, save this conversation and print it off so that you > can talkk about it later with other fossians and mpp people. > <SR71-Blackbird> boka, yeah.. one more thing ke.. like we want to add > books... but want different attributes so that we don't need to add the same > book in different folder... how may we do that? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
