[gpodder-devel] August 2009 status update on gPodder development
- From: brot at gmx.info (Bernd)
- Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:03:31 +0200
Hello Thomas,
what's the reason why you don't use notify-osd on Ubuntu baseed systems?
I don't like the custom notification windows in gPodder on Ubuntu.
In my opinion it doesn't matter that the notification bubbles are placed
on a fix position. For me it would be nicer if gPodder would use
notify-osd on Ubuntu.
What's the opinion here on the mailing list for this issue?
~ Bernd
On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 08:29 -0700, Thomas Perl wrote:
> Hello, users and developers of gPodder!
>
> In the last few weeks, I've carried out some long-awaited refactoring
> of the gPodder codebase. Apart from splitting the different dialogs
> of gui.py in separate modules (which allows for a more modular design
> and also allows to replace and modify existing dialogs more easily),
> I have also removed some global variables that have been used
> previously (if you've been around in the code, you've probably
> noticed the "gl" object that had the configuration attached to it).
>
> So, the database and configuration objects are now created in
> two spots only and passed to other objects from there:
>
> * For the GUI, it's created in gui.py
> * For the CLI + API, it's created in api.py
>
> Several objects that were needed for gPodder to function (i.e. the
> config object) had GTK+-related code inside them. Now, the GTK+-
> related code has been moved to separate GUI model classes or to
> subclasses of the original classes (for example the Config object is
> GTK+-free, with its subclass UIConfig adding GTK+-related
> functionality for the GUI mode).
>
> These changes will allow for better unit testing in the future, and are
> already coming in handy for some features and improvements.
>
> I've also reworked the code for adding new subscriptions, which is now a
> bit more slipstreamed. I have not added GUI code for the subscriptions,
> so the GUI will freeze while new podcasts are being added, but it will
> come before the next release.
>
> The new structure will also allow easier support for different UI modes
> (like Maemo 4, Maemo 5 and "normal" GTK+ mode) by allowing us to easily
> exchange dialogs and modules with platform-specific ones.
>
> Oh, and messages that are not critical are now displayed using libnotify
> (except on Ubuntu, where notify-osd does not allow placement of the
> notification bubbles - we fall back to a custom notification window
> there).
>
> I still need to clean up gui.py a bit more and factor some things out,
> because there is still too much program logic hidden in the GUI code.
>
> These big changes also mean that the next release will be delayed for
> some weeks, but maintaining and testing will be easier after that ;)
>
> If you're working with the Git version of gPodder (that'd be really
> helpful for spotting any bugs I introduced during the refactoring),
> please report problems that you encounter on http://bugs.gpodder.org.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Thomas
>
>
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