[Fedora-livecd-list] liveusb-creator-gtk to be included on livecds

[Luke Macken]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:07:42PM -0500, Luke Macken wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 01:46:35PM +0200, مؤيد السعدي wrote:
> > hi,
> > as I said on the IRC, I'm going to make a pyGTK tool to install the livecd
> > into a usb pendrive
> > 
> > I'm releasing it under GPLv2 to allow fedora shipping it with their rpms
> > 
> > What I have done so far is the GUI which automatically know source cds and
> > target partitions from dbus (no refresh button as it sense the change)
> > 
> > all options and we can add more at any time as I made them a python dict
> > 
> > the header is a gtk.Label() surrounded by two icons
> > the fedora/ojuba/gnome logo by using start-here icon name (to make branding
> > easy)
> > and drive-removable-media-usb icon name (from gnome icon theme)
> > 
> > I want to make sure that those icons are suitable for the KDE/XFCE/LXDE
> > spins
> > 
> > I did not implement the real creation of the livecd yet, simply because I
> > don't want to reinvent the wheel
> > I guess that would be 10 lines to code after we split liveusb-creator into
> > liveusb-creator and liveusb-creator-qt (and maybe adding
> > liveusb-creator-cli)
> 
> I designed the liveusb creator in a way that makes it very easy to throw
> any GUI on top of it.  I initially started writing a PyGTK gui, but
> switched to PyQt because: 1) The implementation turned out to be much
> cleaner and 2) It ran great out of the box on Windows.
> 
> The liveusb.creator module already does all of the hard work for you,
> and wrapping a GUI around it is quite easy.  You can find the latest
> liveusb-creator API documentation here:
> 
>     http://lmacken.fedorapeople.org/liveusb-creator/api/
> 
> Now, in order to be the 'default' liveusb-creator GUI, it needs to be
> fully feature compliant (to the extent that the liveusb.creator module
> currently is), and it needs to run on Windows.  If the GTK
> implementation can meet those requirements, then I would be fine with
> making it the default; assuming that the implementation is as
> clean as the current, and is easily maintainable.
> 
> As far as GTK is concerned, the current liveusb-creator is actually
> rendered with GTK widgets on a Fedora 10 GNOME desktop, thanks to
> QGtkStyle.  So, I guess the only reason for creating a brand new
> interface from scratch is to avoid the PyQt dependency on livecds?  That
> doesn't exactly sounds like the best reason for re-implementing the
> interface, but if someone is willing to write the code, I'm not
> complaining ;)

So, apparently qgtkstyle is not installed by default on F10, so the
liveusb-creator is still rendered using Qt.  I'll bring this up on
f-d-l.

> Here are some prototypes of what the next major release of the
> liveusb-creator will probably look like:
> 
> http://lmacken.fedorapeople.org/liveusb-creator/liveusb-creator-tabbed-0.png
> http://lmacken.fedorapeople.org/liveusb-creator/liveusb-creator-tabbed-1.png
> http://lmacken.fedorapeople.org/liveusb-creator/liveusb-creator-tabbed-2.png
> 
> Let me know if you have any questions, and please keep me in the loop on
> the progress!  There is also a liveusb-creator mailing list where we can
> discuss further implementation details.

If you want, go ahead and apply for the gitliveusb-creator group[0] in fas.
That way, we can get your code under revision control, and start integrating.

luke

[0]: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/group/view/gitliveusb-creator