Re: [Setup-tool-hackers] location manager

[Chema Celorio <chema ximian com>]

Bradford :

I also liked very much the design decided upon. It ended up
beeing very close to your original idea.

Adding a couple of notes to anna's email.

We decided to implement a "simple" location management
firts, there are way to many details and special cases
and I would rather have something working before
we do a more powerfull tool.

SO in order to simplify this, I recoomend that we 
- Focus on implementing it for only one (or two) tool(s).
  Maybe Network settings, or Time Tool.[*1].
- Do not implement in the front end hierarchical locoations
  for now. We can enable them in the future for the advaced
  mode when the location mgm. is working

We need to hide the location manager selector from the individual
tools if they are launched by theselves or from the control center
IF the current location does not "handle" that tool. So users
that have not set up a location, will see the same gui that we
are currently using. 

We still need to figure out the transaction of XML between the
front end, the back end and the archiver. 


regards,
Chema



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[**1] The time tool backend will not handle setting/getting the clock.
that is going to be done in the front end. So the only thing that we
care
about is : NTP Servers & Time Zone

Anna Dirks wrote:
> 
> hi bradford,
>  
> about two minutes ago, i checked a new version
> of the location management tool into cvs.
> the filename is location_management_mockup.glade, and
> it is inside of the interfaces directory.
> 
> the design i settled on (after much talking to
> chema and soliciting input from miguel) is macintoshish...
> and, i hope, has an almost nonexistent learning curve.
> 
> something to keep in mind while you're looking at this stuff:
> there are two "edit tool" dialogs in that glade file.
> one is launched if the user wants to edit a tool from
> within the location manager (and is named as such),
> while the other is launched if the user wants to edit a tool
> from the control center (also clearly named).
> 
> in the latter case, a "location" frame appears near the top
> of the dialog; within that frame, only the names of the locations
> which actually used that tool should appear. let me know
> if i should explain this more.
> 
> okay.. that should give you something to chew on.
> let me know what you think,
> 
> anna
> 
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