[PATCH] control panel entry to send hardware info with smolt

[erikos]

a) we could create an activity around the existing smolt-gui
b) add it to the control panel
c) add a send button to the 'About my computer' section

Note: Should not be too hard as smolt is written in python
Reference: ​http://smolts.org

[garycmartin]

Replying to erikos:

c) add a send button to the 'About my computer' section

+1 for a button in 'About my computer' that's a great place for it and keeps it simple! :-)

[sascha_silbe]

Would be interesting to get some simple performance measurements (e.g. time to X server start, time to shell finished init) this way as well, BTW. Don't know if that needs upstream changes, though.

[sdz]

Moving to v2, as it won't be ready in time. The release notes will mention the hardware effort, though.

[sdz]

We could just make it a control panel entry. I don't know whether I'll be able to do this, but I'd love to have something simple for SoaS v3.

[sascha_silbe]

Bulk change distribution=SoaS -> component=SoaS

[sdz]

Looks like this could be part of GSoC. It'd get into v4 then. Assigning over for now.

[sdz]

I'm working on this as part of my GSoC. Here's the link to my clone: ​http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar/repos/sugar-smolt

[sdz]

Bringing this up for review. Affected module is sugar. It might need a new icon, but we can discuss that with the design team. I'll raise this on the mailing list, too.

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[garycmartin]

Couple of quick thoughts:

• would have been nice to see this go into the Log activity as it is then not stuck in a spcific sugar release cycle, Log is already the main place to go debug things, and already has one (currently broken I think) upload log to server feature.

• is smolt a fedora thing? Do we have to formally add smolt as a Sugar dependancy? Will it work in other distros?

[sdz]

Replying to garycmartin:

Couple of quick thoughts:

Thanks for commenting here! :)

• would have been nice to see this go into the Log activity as it is then not stuck in a spcific sugar release cycle, Log is already the main place to go debug things, and already has one (currently broken I think) upload log to server feature.

Well, we might also want to display the privacy policy. I do so your point, but I feel that the control panel might be a good fit, too, given that it's the place where system-related interactions take place and the hardware profile is related to that.

• is smolt a fedora thing? Do we have to formally add smolt as a Sugar dependancy? Will it work in other distros?

Smolt is also available for other distributions: ​https://fedorahosted.org/smolt/

Since it might not be present on all builds, though, I made its appearance conditional (just like Walter did for his Touchpad CP entry).

[bernie]

Replying to sdz:

Well, we might also want to display the privacy policy. I do so your point, but I feel that the control panel might be a good fit, too, given that it's the place where system-related interactions take place and the hardware profile is related to that.

During the next release cycle we're planning to shave as many icons as possible off the control panel, because it has become so cluttered. Control panel items are also loaded at startup-time, taking up resources even when not in use.

If Analyze doesn't seem like a good place for this functionality, perhaps you could fold it in a tab of "About My Computer".

[tomeu]

Please put this back in the review queue when this feature gets support from the deployments and design team.

[sdz]

Closing. I moved this upstream where it belongs. This also permits a more granular selection of when to install it. Thanks everybody for the comments.

[dnarvaez]

Milestone 0.90 deleted