I am a total C newbie, but am more then willing to learn. In regards to conman does it have its own api are are there bits in the E api that will improve functionality? Also does it support connecting to wireless or is that a missing feature currently in conman?
On Wednesday 06 November 2013 15:57:59 Cedric BAIL wrote: > On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Jonathan Aquilina > > <jaquil...@eagleeyet.net> wrote: > > >From the moment I first tried out E i have fallen in love with it. > > > > I do notice that there are certain features which are lacking. The network > > manager conman needs some major work, as well as native apps for E. My > > question becomes would the project like in terms of conman, for example, > > the code of the kde network management source ported to E or would it be > > better if something were written from scratch using the E api's. > > Porting source to E would be "difficult" :-) My understanding is that > NetworkManager is a daemon with a dbus API. So you basically need to > "just" bind that into a E module. You should note that our current UI > for connman is pretty limited and that connman provide much more > feature than what we currently give access to. I have no > recommendation on what is better improving Connman support or adding > NetworkManager as both make sense. > > > Also what languages in terms of programming does one need to know? > > All core developers and applications tend to happen in C. Connman > module does start a python application when you click on the > configuration button, that did create us trouble with distribution > that didn't provide it correctly and user did complain. So I would > argue that for anything that is going to be integrated with E, it > should be C only. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ November Webinars for C, C++, Fortran Developers Accelerate application performance with scalable programming models. Explore techniques for threading, error checking, porting, and tuning. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60136231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
