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

[From: Pali Rohár]

On Monday 09 January 2012 12:36:02 you wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 10:46:14AM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Yep. At least for now there are no desktop/menu plugins.
> 
> > 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?
> 
> Sounds good. We don't really need a harmattan specific GUI repo,
> at least yet. The standalone Qt GUI should work in both fremantle
> and harmattan if the tvout-ctl API is the same. Some clever way to
> handle packaging may be needed if there are differences. Perhaps
> keep the packaging stuff in separate branches and merge master to
> them when the actual code changes.

Now I merged your changes to CSSU repository on:
https://gitorious.org/community-ssu/maemo-tvout-control

-- 
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar at gmail.com
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