Re: [gDesklets] gdesklets port to Solaris

[C Wang <Chris Wang Sun COM>]

Hi Christian:
That's great. I may have two suggestion on the Sidecandy widget"
 1. The Solaris don't have bogomips info, so can you add
 if (sys.cpu_bogomips > 0):
               Dsp.lbl_cpu_info.value = "Bogomips: %.2f\n%s (%dkB 
cache)" % \
                              (sys.cpu_bogomips, sys.cpu_model, 
sys.cpu_cache)
 else:
               Dsp.lbl_cpu_info.value = "%s (%dkB cache)" % \
                             (sys.cpu_model, sys.cpu_cache)
to the code, and in the /libdesklets/system/Solaris/Generic.py, change 
the return value of bogomips from 5000 to 0 (I just put a fix value 
there, since we don't have this
information in Solaris, and now, maybe its better to set it to 0 
instead). So this widget can work for all platform.

2. In the network.display widget, you hard code the value of iface 
="eth0", this is only true in Linux, In Solaris, we use the real device 
name instead, for example: bge0 means
broadcom. It's hard for me to have a solution for it now, I think it may 
be a good idea to list all available network devices from the 
_network_devices in Arch.py and let the user
select from the list rather than input the device name. It may require 
some work in Controls/system.

I have talked to my manager, and we will ask our a11y testing engineer 
to do a evaluation test on gdesklets. I'll update you the result as they 
finish it.

Thank you very much.
Chris


Christian Meyer wrote:

> Hi,
>
> thanks, I applied your patches. One caused a problem but I managed it.
> Regarding the desklets, yep, we should update SideCandy again, fix 
> bugs and add new features.
> I forgot who wrote WeeklyCalendar.
>
> I still have to wait for my key being uploaded; until then I can't 
> update Gnome's SVN :-(
>
> Greetings,
> Christian


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