a brand new volume manager

[Erik Harrison]

On 1/18/06, daniele favara <danjele at gmail.com> wrote:
> i'm sorry .... this web frontend doesn't reply automatically to CC
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: daniele favara <danjele at gmail.com>
> Date: Jan 18, 2006 2:05 PM
> Subject: Re: a brand new volume manager
> To: Jani Monoses <jani.monoses at gmail.com>
>
>
> On 1/18/06, Jani Monoses <jani.monoses at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > if someyone would port it to c np, but i'm focusing on python ...
> > > that's what i like to use at the moment and mainly it's really a long
> > > time i don't use c. From what i see it's fast as ivman even if it has
> > > more features.
> > >
> > > Why is it better for users to have it in C?
> > >
> >
> > memory footprint reasons,  nothing else.
> > And is XML really needed? A simple INI file like syntax would be better
> > IMHO,
> > unless you use a tree structured or otrherwise complicated config file
> > format
> > This is what I don't like about ivman either, a full page of brackets and
> > tags
> > to convey something which can simply be written (and more importantly read
> > by a human) as key = value lines.
> >
> yes i get what you mean, but libxml2 are really cool and useful ...
> mainly if you want to add a gui to configure you app :).

You could consider looking at the Python bindings for Xfce (currently
in Xfce SVN). They should be released for Xfce 4.4

The Xfce bindings provide access to a really slick config system.
It'll automatically determine the correct location for the config
files (based on the XDG standard), and contains a config file parser
that allows you to treat the config file as a set of typed key value
pairs.


>
> If you see i used same tags as hal and dbus rules, that was my guideline.
>
> The rules.xml files let me to translate it in if conditions within the code.
>
> It seems xml files for such stuff is a standard "de facto" :).
>
> i know even to promote that in main  could be hard, and to add such
> improvement in ivman is better. I don't expect my volume manager will
> be used in xubuntu for dapper .. but i think it's really powerful, and
> with an app that could add desktop icons or a simple applet it could
> improve the xfce usability (accessibilty too) very much.
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