Revision as of 21:57, 20 June 2011

Intro

Note: mostly raw unfiltered thoughts, please contact me before acting upon them.

#770 "Add mechanism to enable UI's to request extra data be stored in the cache" http://bugzilla.pokylinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770 (Liping/Lianhao) - WIP Liping working on a patch set
~~Add mechanism to enable selection of server back-end at runtime, rather than it being hard-coded. Furthermore a UI should be able to specify which server it wants to run against (Liping/Lianhao)~~
~~Distro selector dropdown~~
- ~~as per MACHINE dropdown, partially implemented~~
~~Build development toolchain checkbox~~
- ~~add meta-toolchain to task list~~
~~Toolchain host combo~~
- ~~like MACHINE, set SDKMACHINE from possible files in machine-sdk, partially implemented?~~
~~Include development headers with toolchain (easy/medium)~~
- add dev-pkgs to IMAGE_FEATURES?
~~Spinner to set BB_NUMBER_THREADS~~
~~Spinner to set PARALLEL_MAKE~~
~~Save/load previous configuration~~
- save will create a .bb file from which the created image can be reproduced
- load will parse a bb file and set up the gui
Config write back - WIP partial implementation of Configurator gobject
When the user changes values that could be set in local.conf offer to write those values to save the user from having to change those again in future
~~A search box which does basic find in the currently selected treeview's model (gtk.TreeView.set_search_entry)~~
- Could do with a custom gtk.TreeView.set_search_equal_func()

Optimise, we could probably be faster than ~30s on Single core (dual thread) Core 2 Duo @ 1.8GHz
- PyGtk bindings support a more simple value setting syntax, the following snippet will set the third row's values:
```
model[(2,)] = ('new string value', 'string 2')
```
  Therefore we can optimise insertion of the data into the tree model by ensuring the data comes back as a list (one entry per row) of tuples containing appropriate values for each column.
~~Package format dropdown~~
Image output type dropdown
all possible values for IMAGE_FSTYPES set in class

getVariable used to get list, split on " " and put into combobox
Fix sorting in Packages treeview. Sorting by group would be enabled here.
Enable changing sort order in tree views (A-Z | Z-A | ??) by clicking column header
~~Show some notification when doing long-running operations i.e. toggle a package with many DEPENDS and the UI blocks without feedback~~
Bitbake reports "ERROR: Nothing to do. Use 'bitbake world' to build everything, or run 'bitbake --help' for usage information." when exiting hob, need to allow UI's to configure whether this message is relevant or not
~~When cancelling a build, confirm before killing~~
~~Enable/Disable layers - use configuration writeback support for local.conf changes to also edit/save bblayers.conf changes~~
- Properly reload the data when the layers are modified

~~Fix reset/build again~~
- ~~I think this is caused by the cooker/server exiting on build completion. If so we need to enable the UI to request the server doesn't terminate until it receives a signal of some sort.~~
~~We need to be able to switch from a stopped/completed build back to the image creation mode.~~
~~Fix removing *all* packages in sweep~~

Tell the user where the created image is on disk (as a medium term enhancement also allow opening the containing folder, long term allow writing the image to some media)
Show contents of images & tasks (per community feedback) http://bugzilla.pokylinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=991
Show more information for selected package (per community feedback) http://bugzilla.pokylinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=992
add context menus to build view
- view logs
- show log directory
- view log for task
- copy log
- paste bin log
add context menus to package view
- "Rebuild-from" with a submenu for each task of the build; fetch, unpack, compile, etc.
hobhandler as a proxy to the server has a code smell
Investigate/verify using the image creator with sstate mirrors (should just work!)
- Add GUI to set sstate mirror variable
"Overlay" files, extra files to be installed into the rootfs at image generation time
- Custom ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND
Display and change IMAGE_FEATURES
Consider a name change, David suggested 'Yocto HOB (Human Oriented Builder)'
Consider allowing dragging a package from the list to the contents area
Warn when removing the core layers
Have build dir be a part of the workspace so that everything done with the GUI tool is part of the same directory.

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 ** PyGtk bindings support a more simple value setting syntax, the following snippet will set the third row's values:<pre>model[(2,)] = ('new string value', 'string 2')</pre>Therefore we can optimise insertion of the data into the tree model by ensuring the data comes back as a list (one entry per row) of tuples containing appropriate values for each column.
 * <del>Package format dropdown</del>
-* Image output type dropdown
+* <del>Image output type dropdown
 ** all possible values for IMAGE_FSTYPES set in class
-** getVariable used to get list, split on " " and put into combobox
+** getVariable used to get list, split on " " and put into combobox</del>
-* Fix sorting in Packages treeview. Sorting by group would be enabled here.
+* <del>Fix sorting in Packages treeview. Sorting by group would be enabled here.
-** Enable changing sort order in tree views (A-Z | Z-A | ??) by clicking column header
+** Enable changing sort order in tree views (A-Z | Z-A | ??) by clicking column header</del>
 * <del>Show some notification when doing long-running operations i.e. toggle a package with many DEPENDS and the UI blocks without feedback</del>
 * Bitbake reports "ERROR: Nothing to do.  Use 'bitbake world' to build everything, or run 'bitbake --help' for usage information." when exiting hob, need to allow UI's to configure whether this message is relevant or not