Re: From here to apps

["Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak gnome org>]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Frederic Peters <fpeters gnome org> wrote:
>
> Speaking of Vinagre, it even has "Implement some of the ideas from
> GNOME desktop sharing/virtualisation design mockups" on its roadmap
> for 3.4 (see <https://live.gnome.org/Vinagre/RoadMap>).

  I assume you are referring to Boxes here[1]. If you look at the
tentative designs, the UI is significantly different from that of
vinagre and virt-manager to justify writing of this UI from
scratch[2]. Apart from the UI, I don't see how much of vinagre code
could be useful to us since AFAIK most of the functionality is
provided by spice-gtk  (Marc-Andre?). Moreover, vinagre doesn't do any
VM management, which is a significant part of Boxes idea. There is a
conflict with virt-manager in that area (as you noticed) but we are
working closely with Daniel P. Berrange on the framework side so that
most (if not all) of this 'conflict' is limited to UI only.

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124

[1] https://live.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Boxes
[2] Since many components of UI are common with Documents, I intend to
re-use/steal code from there.