Kern Sibbald wrote: > Well, I probably didn't explicitly state it in my email, but yes, this is a > project I would like to do, but I certainly don't mean to discourage any > other GUI. In fact, part of the goal is to create a new Bacula API that this > GUI will use. The API should be usable by everyone (Python, Perl, PHP, Java, > Ruby, C, C++, ...). However, I cannot write an API unless I have a real > application to use it. > The problem is that so far, there the gconsole is not being developed and no > longer works correctly in restore mode because the GTK implementors know > nothing about upward portability, wx-console is not being enhanced because > its author is studying very hard at University, the pygtk-console doesn't > look too bad, but author doesn't have the time to work on it (I'm not > complaining as these things take an enormous amount of time, and everyone > must earn a living). I have waited but no complete solution or anything else > has come along yet to replace any of them.
I agree that an API should be written to make GUI programming a lot less painful, in my case I realized that most of my problems building pygtk-console came from the fact that the software have to "chat" with the director like a human being, parsing director's answers, manage a command queue, etc. something cleaner will be a lot nicer. I'm looking forward to continue developing pygtk-console, if you don't mind I would like to remain this as part of the project. In the meantime I'll write some fixes to it that solve my particular problems. On the API side, I cannot help you with the official Bacula C++/Qt GUI as I don't know C++ neither Qt, but I can help on the API design testing things from Python, if you see is necessary. Best regards, -- Lucas Di Pentima - Santa Fe, Argentina - Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] LUNIX S.R.L. - Soluciones en GNU/Linux - http://www.lunix.com.ar GnuPG Public Key: http://random.sks.keyserver.penguin.de:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x6AA54FC9 Key fingerprint = BD3B 08C4 661A 8C3B 1855 740C 8F98 3FCF 6AA5 4FC9
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