Hi Parnell,
The status of gnunet-cocoa is that there's an installer and a setup gui
that both work. The code could use a clean-up, but most of the
functionality is there. Note that quite a bit of the code is actually
under GNUnet/ (and not gnunet-cocoa/). There's no release, because
there's no GUI for filesharing and as such a release would not be all
that useful imho.
After the 0.9 branching I readjusted my plans and thought that I'd
rather write the filesharing part along with the 0.9 development.
However, realistically speaking, it might be better to just do the
bigger UI parts (like filesharing) with common code, ie. using Qt or
GTK. Both Qt and GTK can be used on OS X without X11 these days. It will
look and behave a bit worse than native Cocoa, but I'm not sure if
that's really important in a filesharing app.
If you're itching to code something, a GUI for just showing statistics
from the daemon would be a good starting point. With any OS X
developments, I'd like to maintain compatibility down to 10.4 (which
means that all the point and click stuff and ObjC features from the
later Xcode versions won't be available.)
-- Heikki Lindholm
Christian Grothoff kirjoitti:
Hi!
First, I should mention that there is already an effort to write a COCOA
frontend (https://ng.gnunet.org/svn/gnunet-cocoa/). It has never been
released (AFAIK), and I do not know how far along the code is. My impression
is that help would be rather welcome (and I do not recall if the original
vision was to do an installer or a file-sharing GUI or both).
Second, yes, there is an API. Now, there is the "old" 0.8.x API
(src/include/gnunet_ecrs_lib.h and gnunet_fsui_lib.h mostly), and there will
be a new API for 0.9.x (svn/gnunet/src/include/gnunet_fs_service.h). Both
have some stuff in common, but the 0.9.x-API should be both more powerful and
easier to use. OTOH, 0.9.x is only partially implemented, so it would not be
as straightforward to test your code right now.
Finally, I think the mailinglist for development issues is gnunet-
[email protected]; help-gnunet is more for user-issues. I've cc'ed Heikki
Lindholm, the author of gnunet-cocoa.
Best,
Christian
On Wednesday 02 December 2009 06:08:56 am Parnell Springmeyer wrote:
Hello,
This was the only list for gnunet that seemed appropriate for this topic...
As I'm rather dissatisfied with the GTK GUI on Mac OS X, I have decided
to build a Cocoa based GUI for OS X. I am, basically, looking for some
tips and pointers.
I realize the Gnunet client is separate from the GUI, so I'm assuming
the client and its applications can be used through an API? If the
developers could give some pointers, that would be great.
I'm starting out by looking at how gnunet-gtk is built and going from
there. I'm also a noob to Mac OS X desktop application building
(although I've worked on iPhone apps, so it isn't alien), so it's also a
bit of a learning project for me.
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