[bt-devel] Network warning functionality

[Martin Gruner]

I agree!

mg

Am Donnerstag, 22. Oktober 2009 15:40:22 schrieb Eeli Kaikkonen:
> I was hoping to implement a dynamic network warning dialog using the
> SWORD library's virtual method. However, it seems to be too complicated.
> First, we use threads and it creates problems. UI widgets can be created
> and used only from the main application thread. Therefore it's quite
> complicated to show a dialog from an installation thread. There are even
> more problems because part of our code, namely refreshing the sources,
> is non-threaded and works differently and therefore requires different
> kind of code.
> 
> Second, I can't figure out a way to create UI which has good usability.
> I'm sorry to say this but the current BibleCS UI is horrible. You have
> to type "yes" with keyboard over and over again. We would of course use
> a real GUI, but the SWORD workflow just doesn't fit us. E.g. if you
> answer "no" the the question "do you want to continue using network" the
> SWORD library lets you do everything but connect to network. This means
> that you can select modules and start to install them, but then it just
> fails. Maybe it's not completely the library's fault, but the workflow
> in our code and UI is so different that it doesn't work well out of the
> box.
> 
> I suggest that we just show a warning dialog when the Bookshelf Manager
> is opened. The user would have possibility to check "Don't show this
> again". We then have to make sure the networking code is not initiated
> outside the Bookshelf Manager.
> 
> Why I want to use a dialog instead of the current embedded warning in
> the Install page? Because the embedded warning takes space and is
> useless for most users. Additionally it should be duplicated if we want
> to create a config dialog page for Installation Sources (I would like to
> do that).
> 
>   Yours,
> 	Eeli Kaikkonen (Mr.), Oulu, Finland
> 	e-mail: eekaikko at mailx.studentx.oulux.fix (with no x)
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