Some debian questions

[Guillaume Chereau]

On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 10:29 +0800, Guillaume Chereau wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 14:51 +0100, Benedikt Bär wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I am currently setting up a debian system on my FreeRunner, but I have
> > some questions. :)
> > 
> > 1) I'm writing some python programs to interact with the FSO framework.
> > I have seen there's now support for a "rules" file, which seems quite a
> > nice idea.
> > 
> > Now, I would like to be able to modify these rules via my program. That
> > way, for example, I could set a screen blanking / suspend timeout but my
> > program wouldn't have to listen to events. It would automatically be
> > done by the framework.
> > 
> > Is this possible? If not, any plans to implement something like a D-BUS
> > interface for modifying rules?
> You can already add new rules using the dbus call :
> org.freesmartphone.Events.AddRule(s)
> 
> the string should be in the same format than the rules in the rules
> file.
> 
> For the way to modify rules, it is planned. Rules can have name (using
> 'name' attribute in the rules file.)
> I will take some time today to add a RemoveRule, so that you can add and
> remove rules.

Ok I added the RemoveRule method to oeventsd, you can check oevents.py
in the framework tests directory to see how to add and remove rules.

BUT, it makes me realize a problem : the rules manager only activates
the rules that are specified in the rules preference file (e.g [0])

So if you add a new rule with a name, the rule won't be activated unless
you also specify that the rule is activated in the preference file. that
is not very good and we need to solve this problem.

cheers,
Guillaume

 [0] :
http://git.freesmartphone.org/?p=framework.git;a=blob;f=etc/freesmartphone/opreferences/conf/rules/default.yaml;h=e0066eff76973b5597d879bf81b0e0f490660bdb;hb=HEAD

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