Re: [gnome-db] Egnima's status

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 09:17, Malerba_Vivien stna dgac fr wrote:
> > 
> > > - include the SQL console window (Rodrigo?)
> > >
> > I'm about to commit the beginning of this.
> 
> I've seen the result but I haven't managed to commit a query, how do you
> do it (there was a toolbar in gnome-db to do it)?
> 
yes, there was a toolbar/menu items for executing the command. I guess
we should do the same for egnima, although as I wasn't sure, I just
added the SQL window with no menu options.

> > 
> > > - start adding printing support
> > > - more (I'll provide a kind of roadmap soon).
> > 
> > I'll provide some things I've found about:
> > 
> > * remove the dialog that asks for the password after selecting the data
> > source, since the username and password can be retrieved from the
> > GnomeDbLogin widget in the previous dialog.
> 
> Ok, this is because you've changed libgda to allow for password storage
> in the libgda config. I propose that the dialog be removed if there is
> already a password, and kept present if none is present (maybe the user
> does not want to store his password in the libgda config file but give
> it at runtime). OK?
> 
no, but the GnomeDbLogin does not store anything, it just prompts the
user for a DSN/username/password, and then you just have to get it
(gnome_db_login_get_dsn/username/password), so the second dialog is
redundant, since it asks again for the password.

> > 
> > * I created a new MIME type in libgda, which uses .connection as
> > extension and XML for defining parameters to open a connection (there's
> > some work on a nautilus view in libgnomedb, which should work as of the
> > docs, but doesn't :-( So, I was thinking that we could use this MIME
> > type for Egnima also, extending the XML as needed by Egnima. Thus, we
> > could easily associate that MIME type to Egnima and have it integrated
> > in the rest of GNOME. So, what about extending this .connection file to
> > support all Egnima needs, and use it?
> 
> I have not heard about the .connection but the idea is good. Is there
> any doc about that somewhere?
> 
no, I just started it when we started the merge, to provide database
views in nautilus. So far, it is very simple, and I've never managed to
get nautilus to open correctly these files (activating a Bonobo
component I made for this which just shows a GnomeDbBrowser widget) :-(
But what I've done is a good start for a more complex format file to
store info about connections. The start is in
libgda/libgda/gda-xml-connection.[ch] and libgnomedb/components.

> Tonight I will work on the latest missing piece of code (the QueryExec
> object) to be able to execute queries (at last!) so we have the
> beginning of something working.

cool!

cheers