Re: [Bacula-users] Rif: GUI interface
Op 16-jan-2007, om 19:33 heeft Kern Sibbald het volgende geschreven: Hmm. Yes, bacon is not bad, and probably better than badmin. The only downside is that I am vegetarian :-) after second though, being vegetarian wouldn't stop me from using a nice name like that. The only advantage of b-admin is that it is a bit more descriptive of its function. Also, do mind, that there IS an Bacon project that does. backups :) Rgrds, Diederik- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Rif: GUI interface
Why not bacon? It would contain both 3 letters of bacula and 3 of console and it would also have a philosofic meaning. Anyway wichever name you will choose I am sure the package will be great. -- Ferdinando Pasqualetti G.T.Dati srl Tel. 0557310862 - 3356172731 - Fax 055720143 Kern Sibbald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 16/01/2007 17.10 Per [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC bacula-users bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Oggetto [Bacula-users] GUI interface Hello, Quite awhile ago, I wrote the email that is copied at the end of this email. Since then, my plans have not changed a lot, but have evolved a bit. I am now ready to begin the GUI project. One of the first and most difficult problems is what should it be called? bconsole is already used, some of the ideas I have come up with are: bcon beacon badmin ... If anyone has a good idea for a name, please let me know. My current preference is badmin, pronounced either bad-min or be-admin. One change from my ideas below is that I am now implementing the GUI in C++ and Qt4, all the other points indicated below remain valid. In addition to what is mentioned there, I believe that badmin, or whatever its name is, should have at least the following features: badmin is a GUI project to create a Bacula Administrative Console. This console should be capable of the following things: - be a Graphical interface - Include all the features of: - bconsole - gnome-console - wx-console - bacula-web - bweb - brestore - jbacula - tray-monitor - tree selection of files for restore (like wx-console) - tree selection of files for backup - graphical creation of FileSets - resource display/modification - catalog display/modification - graphical report generation (like bacula-web, bweb) - programmable graphical report generation - scriptable - create/modify configuration files - remote client upgrade - software update/problem/patch notification - software patch installation - monitor daemons My current thinking is that it will be laid out a bit like gnome-console is. It will be a main window with a set of menus and an icon bar. Below that will be the main console window, and blow that will be a status line and a command input line. However, to the left will be a tree view window consisting of a tree of small icons representing all the daemons that the program can access (e.g. the directors, SDs, and FDs). As you click on these items, the right console pane will be replaced by the window that corresponds to what item you clicked on. That is the right window will be a widget stack that can change. Depending on what you choose, the right menu may be a dialog, tabbed widgets, or any other appropriate window. It will probably even be dockable or have the ability to open in a separate window. Among the items in the left window will be things such as: - Console - Run Jobs - Backup - Restore - Migrate ... - Reports - bweb like - Catalog - Configure - Monitor ... This kind of layout was previously suggested by someone, and to a certain extent, it is implemented in the pygtk-console. The difference is that in that console, clicking on the items in the left pane brought up new tabs in the right window, and my concept is that it will bring up a whole new view in the right window (StackedWidgets), and that in some, possibly all, the right window could be made into a window that remains open on the screen (i.e. you may want to monitor at the same time you are starting jobs). Any help with this project would be appreciated, because once we have the basic window layout, adding new items and new views into Bacula will be sub-projects that are essentially independent of each other. As I am essentially still zero in using designer, if there is anyone out there that can do a quick programming task, please let me (and the list know). What I need to help speed up this project is a Qt4 project file using qmake and designer that has the main window defined via designer in the way I mentioned. Once the basic skeleton (badmin.ui + badmin.pro + a couple of skeleton c++ files) is implemented, I think it will be relatively fast to connect it to Bacula and begin the real work. This is something I can do, but getting there is a rather steep learning curve (designer, forms, slots, Qt4 classes/API, subclassing, ...). Best regards, Kern On Saturday 30 September 2006 16:47, Kern Sibbald wrote: Hello, As I previously wrote, working on a GUI solution is now one of my top priorities. We have discussed the problems and possible solutions for getting a good GUI interface for Bacula a number of times. I've thought about all the possibilities, and there are a lot of them. Previously, I had been leaning more towards a Python Qt interface, because Python is a nice language and easy to program. Unfortunately, I haven't found any
Re: [Bacula-users] Rif: GUI interface
On Tuesday 16 January 2007 18:23, Ferdinando Pasqualetti wrote: Why not bacon? It would contain both 3 letters of bacula and 3 of console and it would also have a philosofic meaning. Hmm. Yes, bacon is not bad, and probably better than badmin. The only downside is that I am vegetarian :-) after second though, being vegetarian wouldn't stop me from using a nice name like that. The only advantage of b-admin is that it is a bit more descriptive of its function. Anyway wichever name you will choose I am sure the package will be great. Thanks. For the moment, it is still vaporware. -- Ferdinando Pasqualetti G.T.Dati srl Tel. 0557310862 - 3356172731 - Fax 055720143 Kern Sibbald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 16/01/2007 17.10 Per [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC bacula-users bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Oggetto [Bacula-users] GUI interface Hello, Quite awhile ago, I wrote the email that is copied at the end of this email. Since then, my plans have not changed a lot, but have evolved a bit. I am now ready to begin the GUI project. One of the first and most difficult problems is what should it be called? bconsole is already used, some of the ideas I have come up with are: bcon beacon badmin ... If anyone has a good idea for a name, please let me know. My current preference is badmin, pronounced either bad-min or be-admin. One change from my ideas below is that I am now implementing the GUI in C++ and Qt4, all the other points indicated below remain valid. In addition to what is mentioned there, I believe that badmin, or whatever its name is, should have at least the following features: badmin is a GUI project to create a Bacula Administrative Console. This console should be capable of the following things: - be a Graphical interface - Include all the features of: - bconsole - gnome-console - wx-console - bacula-web - bweb - brestore - jbacula - tray-monitor - tree selection of files for restore (like wx-console) - tree selection of files for backup - graphical creation of FileSets - resource display/modification - catalog display/modification - graphical report generation (like bacula-web, bweb) - programmable graphical report generation - scriptable - create/modify configuration files - remote client upgrade - software update/problem/patch notification - software patch installation - monitor daemons My current thinking is that it will be laid out a bit like gnome-console is. It will be a main window with a set of menus and an icon bar. Below that will be the main console window, and blow that will be a status line and a command input line. However, to the left will be a tree view window consisting of a tree of small icons representing all the daemons that the program can access (e.g. the directors, SDs, and FDs). As you click on these items, the right console pane will be replaced by the window that corresponds to what item you clicked on. That is the right window will be a widget stack that can change. Depending on what you choose, the right menu may be a dialog, tabbed widgets, or any other appropriate window. It will probably even be dockable or have the ability to open in a separate window. Among the items in the left window will be things such as: - Console - Run Jobs - Backup - Restore - Migrate ... - Reports - bweb like - Catalog - Configure - Monitor ... This kind of layout was previously suggested by someone, and to a certain extent, it is implemented in the pygtk-console. The difference is that in that console, clicking on the items in the left pane brought up new tabs in the right window, and my concept is that it will bring up a whole new view in the right window (StackedWidgets), and that in some, possibly all, the right window could be made into a window that remains open on the screen (i.e. you may want to monitor at the same time you are starting jobs). Any help with this project would be appreciated, because once we have the basic window layout, adding new items and new views into Bacula will be sub-projects that are essentially independent of each other. As I am essentially still zero in using designer, if there is anyone out there that can do a quick programming task, please let me (and the list know). What I need to help speed up this project is a Qt4 project file using qmake and designer that has the main window defined via designer in the way I mentioned. Once the basic skeleton (badmin.ui + badmin.pro + a couple of skeleton c++ files) is implemented, I think it will be relatively fast to connect it to Bacula and begin the real work. This is
