Hi everybody! While browsing through the current code of the screenlets there were many things that came to my mind. This is a rough list of thoughts, ideas and plans I had while browsing the code. Some things may need further discussion and refinement, some things seem to be already done in universal-applets. Natan (or whoever reads this), if you have any comments, feel free to add them.
- All screenlets should be moved into one separate launchpad project and be removed from the core. The core should just contain the core library stuff. The same for the plugins, though we then may need a plugin-dependancy-system and -check within each screenlet, but that should be useful anyway (e.g. to display human-readable messages about missing deps instead of just crashing with python errors). A simple list with dependancies would be nice here (or do we have such thing already?). - Utils.py needs cleanup and a better organization of functions, many things don't belong in there (e.g. Evolution-specific code, file-handling stuff, etc.). The utils.py was never intended to become a general purpose utils module, it is a utils module for screenlet-specific functions to be used by external (i.e. non-screenlet) applications. Although we maybe should move all those to the screenlets-module itself and then really use utils.py as general-purpose lib. For fs-related functions maybe a sub-module like e.g. "utils.file" would be an option? - Screenlet-class needs to become its own file and the screenlets-module __init__.py should just hold utility functions (maybe what was originally placed in the utils module?) ... (seems to be partly done in U-A) - The entire code badly needs one consistent coding style and a document that describes the coding guidelines. - The plugin API may need some refinement. - The whole sensors module needs to be re-thought. Maybe it should instead become a plugin or be moved to a different place. At least it badly needs refactoring. - Unfortunately there was a rollback of my option changes in rev82 and the OptionGroup was stripped due to backward compatibility issues. Having it done back then would have caused a lot less work compared to today, but it is still needed. - Translation of debug messages makes no sense. Gettext strings need a complete review. Only menu-items and messages that are directly displayed to the user should be translated. - The screenlets-manager should become its own launchpad project (also useful for packaging). It should then contain the tray-icon app (which should get splitted from the daemon process as noted below). It also obviously needs a lot of improvement. My original version was a really quick hack. The code needs to be splitted and reviewed. Maybe even a whole new app would be an option. - The screenlets-daemon should not have a tray icon, that's entirely against the idea of a background service. The tray icon should be a separate application and come bundled with the screenlets-manager. That's it for the start :-) ... I don't know how much this collides with the things that are already done in (or planned for) universal-applets. If there is anything then please let me know. best regards Rico (RYX) _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~screenlets-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~screenlets-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
