[avahi] pygtk

[Sebastien Estienne]

2005/8/4, Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.de>:
> On Thu, 04.08.05 15:45, Sebastien Estienne (sebastien.estienne at gmail.com) wrote:
> 
> > > AM_PATH_PYTHON(2.4)
> > > AM_PYTHON_CHECK_VERSION("$PYTHON", 2.4, [HAVE_PYTHON=yes], [HAVE_PYTHON=no])
> > > AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_PYTHON, [test "x$HAVE_PYTHON" = xyes ])
> > >
> >
> > I replaced it because this:
> > AM_PATH_PYTHON(2.4, [HAVE_PYTHON=yes], [HAVE_PYTHON=no])
> > didn't work on my pc, HAVE_PYTHON wasn't define, (no "yes or no" in
> > the summary)
> 
> Please update to automake1.9. (maybe 1.8 suffices, though. 1.7
> definitely isn't enough)
i was using 1.7, sorry for the troubles

> 
> > > try:
> > >        import gtk, gobject
> > > except ImportError, e:
> > >        print "Sorry, you need to install pygtk to use this tool."
> > >        sys.exit(2)
> > >
> 
> > Oki i'll follow your advice, but i see a little problem with doing this:
> > what happen if the user starts avahi-discover from his "applications"
> > menu? he can't know what is wrong.
> 
> Hmm, good point. I personally never use that menu, so I didn't think
> of it. Perhaps we should leave it to the distributors to add a
> pygtk dependency (or "Recommends:" line) to their packages.
> 
We could, put the recommendation in README or INSTALL, and then it's
up to packagers.

Talking about menu, i'm investigating adding a .desktop. We'll need an
icon/logo at some point.  Should we contact jimmac?

> > > BTW, I have another suggestion for you how to improve
> > > avahi-discover. Add another tree level for the network a service is
> > > found on, and drop the column showing this instead. An example:
> > >
> > > + Interface eth0 (IPv4)
> > >   + Domain .local
> > >     + Service Type _http._tcp
> > >       + Web Service #1
> > >       + Blah Blubb
> > >     + Type _ftp._tcp
> > >       + My FTP Server
> > >   + Domain .home
> > >     + Service Type _presence._tcp
> > >       + Lieschen Müller
> > >       + Peter Panther
> > > + Interface wlan0 (IPv4)
> > >   + Domain .local
> > >     + Service Type _http._tcp
> > >       + Miau
> > > + Interface wlan0 (IPv6)
> > >   + Domain .local
> > >     + Service Type _gurki._tcp
> > >       + Brrrumm!
> > >
> > > And expanding the entries in the tree view by default would be cool,
> > > too.
> 
> > Oki, how can i make the link between the interface number and it's real name
> > eg 8 -> eth0 ?
> 
> In C it is simple. just use the SIOCGIFNAME ioctl on any socket. (see
> netdevice(7) for more info)
> 
> In python its probably a little more difficult.
> 
> Google found this for me:
> 
> http://twistedmatrix.com/wiki/python/IfConfig
> 
i'll have a look at it

> I could add a small helper function to the DBUS API to facilitate
> this, though it's probably not the cleanest thing to do.
> 
> > > And finally: clicking on any of the entries doesn't reveal any
> > > information at the moment. This worked some revisions ago, but doesn't any more?
> > >
> > I modified avahi-discover.glade to add a signal, it probably means
> > that it's not pointing to the modified glade file (probably the old
> > one)
> 
> Yes, you right. Thanks for the pointer!
> 
> Lennart
> 
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Sebastien Estienne