On 10/22/13 2:12 PM, intrigeri wrote:
... And then, someone suggested turning Tor Launcher into an autonomous XUL application. I've not thought this through yet, but it does seem this would be enough to allow us to simply s/Vidalia/Tor Launcher/. Are there plans to do so? How hard would you expect it to be for someone skilled in this area? Would you want to do it, for the sake of the greater Tor community?
Mike would need to comment on priorities, but at present Mark and I are pretty busy with TBB work. But it would be nice to find a way for Tails to use Tor Launcher.
I don't know how much work it would be to create a standalone XUL application. You could use a "from the ground up" approach (like Firefox or Thunderbird), or you could use XULRunner, or you could use Firefox's -app switch to host the application.
Can you describe your requirements in more detail? Here are some of our questions:
- Do you use Vidalia to launch tor (I would guess not) or just as a controller to allow people to adjust settings?
- What features of Vidalia do you need? Currently, Tor Launcher only provides "start tor", network settings, and "Copy Tor Log to Clipboard" capabilities. Within the TBB Browser, users can create a new identity but that is handled by Tor Button.
- Does the Tor network settings window need to be displayed at login time, e.g., to allow configuration before tor touches the network?
- How do you currently prevent the desktop user from reconfiguring tor? -- Kathy Brade -- Pearl Crescent, LLC _______________________________________________ tails-dev mailing list tails-dev@boum.org https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev
