intrigeri: > sajolida wrote (19 Feb 2015 14:23:03 GMT) : >> intrigeri: >>> I thought about it >>> a bit harder, and now it's not obvious to me what we would gain by >>> merging the two tools we need into a single one: >>> >>> * Tails could start the Tor bootstrap and time sync progress monitor. >>> Upon completion, this piece of software would either just >>> terminate, or (if we need a permanent indicator that's tight to the >>> actual Tor status) start Tor Monitor --hide-in-taskbar, that would >>> display some onion. >>> >>> * Anyone else would just use Tor Monitor. >>> >>> And then this topic becomes mostly orthogonal to the current >>> discussion, I think :) > >> That would work. It would cut the visible part of things into two: Tor >> Monitor (with status icon) and progress bar (while starting Tor). > >> But couldn't the Tor progress bar be generic as well? I'm not sure but >> it could make sense on my regular Debian when starting or restart Tor as >> well. Then even the progress bar is in Debian and not Tails specific. > > That would be ideal, but the way we bootstrap Tor connectivity in > Tails is strongly coupled with our time sync' thing, which isn't > exactly generic, e.g. we sometimes restart Tor in the middle of this > process (we do that after changing the system time, and also when we > failed to get a consensus on first attempt). It might be that some day > little-t-tor gives us everything we need out-of-the-box to change > this, but we're not there yet. In the current state of things, I don't > see how we can implement what you're suggesting, but perhaps anonym, > who knows this area of our codebase quite better than me, will have > better ideas.
Sorry, I forgot about the time sync mess :) _______________________________________________ Tails-dev mailing list Tails-dev@boum.org https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to tails-dev-unsubscr...@boum.org.