[maemo-developers] [ANNOUNCE] N9/N950 TV out control application

[From: Pali Rohár]

On Monday 09 January 2012 11:20:19 you wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 09:48:27AM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > On Monday 09 January 2012 10:39:43 Ville =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Syrj=E4l=E4?= 
wrote:
> > > I finally managed to make some progress on "porting"
> > > maemo-tvout-control to harmattan.
> > > 
> > > Code is here:
> > > https://gitorious.org/maemo-tvout-control/n9-tvout-control
> > > 
> > > What you'll find there is a a very simple QWidget based GUI,
> > > and backend code utilizing XRandR.
> > > 
> > > The backend supports a few extra knobs, when compared with
> > > fremantle. However, I was too lazy to write the extra GUI
> > > code. So the current GUI offers the same controls that
> > > maemo-tvout-control has.
> > > 
> > > The ultimate plan is to write a nice QML GUI for this stuff,
> > > although I don't know when I'll have time to learn QML.
> > > 
> > > Another idea I have is to move the backend code to a separate
> > > library. The same should be done for the fremantle Xv based
> > > backend code. This would provide a unified TV out control API
> > > for both platforms.
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > last year I merged maemo-tvout-control with control panel settings plugin
> > for Nokia N900. Code is now in Community SSU on gitorious
> > 
> > https://gitorious.org/community-ssu/maemo-tvout-control
> > 
> > and is based on your orignal code
> > https://gitorious.org/maemo-tvout-control/maemo-tvout-control
> 
> Ah, I did see the mail, but was swamped with something at the time and then
> I just totally forgot to respond. Sorry.
> 
> > I created new tvout status menu plugin, it is in that CSSU repository too.
> 
> Great. Multiple different GUIs was the reason I tried to keep the
> backend code separate.
> 
> > It is possible to merge my changes on CSSU to your project? I think it is
> > not good idea to have 2 separated projects which has same code.
> 
> Yeah we could do some merging. But perhaps now would a good time to
> move the backend code into a separate library. I'm not sure if the
> harmattan and fremantle code can coexist nicely inside a single library,
> or if that would cause problems with the packaging and whatnot. But at
> least we could provide a library with the same name, and the same API,
> for both platforms.

That version which is in CSSU working as:

* status menu plugin is loaded at startup and only this plugin have access to 
tvout-ctl.c code. It monitor gconf tvout keys and when some is changed, it 
call tvout-ctl function to change xv properties. (also monitor for xv changes 
and change gconf keys)

* control panel plugin and desktop widget (and other plugins that can be 
implemented) only changing gconf tvout keys, nothing more.


In tvout-ctl is minimum changes. There was only removed hardcoded function 
update_ui and tvout_ui_set_* Instead that, tvout_ctl_init function get pointer 
to function which is called.

So tvout-ctl.c should be same in fremantle and harmattan with my changes. I do 
not know harmattan, but I think that haramttan does not use any Gtk, gconf 
libraries, so desktop widget, control and status menu plugins are only for 
fremantle. I think that the best will be to have one repository for tvout-ctl, 
one for fremantle (here will be fremantle plugins) in CSSU project and one for 
harmattan. What do you think?

-- 
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar at gmail.com
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