[ovirt-devel] Python-GTK User Portal

[Antoni Segura Puimedon]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michal Skrivanek" <michal.skrivanek at redhat.com>
> To: "Vojtech Szocs" <vszocs at redhat.com>, "Amador Pahim" <amador at pahim.org>
> Cc: devel at ovirt.org
> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2014 12:54:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-devel] Python-GTK User Portal
> 
> 
> On May 27, 2014, at 12:48 , Vojtech Szocs <vszocs at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi, this project looks nice!
> > 
> > Indeed, UserPortal can be sluggish on devices with limited performance.
> > Going for custom, light-weight UserPortal sounds like a natural choice,
> > "samples-portals" repo sounds like a natural place :)
> > 
> > Note that (very) soon I'm going to present a prototype of oVirt.js,
> > SDK for working with oVirt within JavaScript environment. In future,
> > we could implement light-weight UserPortal as web application, or we
> > could use Node.js to host the client application code.
> 
> 
> It's awesomely simple. Even as a non-web application I think it's worth it:)
> It can be a great way how to find out what are we missing in SDK, what is not
> effective enough for big scale usage, debugging, etc..
> 
> I wouldn't hesitate much to throw the current user portal away and replace it
> with this. One small bug in current portal takes longer to fix than this
> whole thing…

I would not necessarily throw it away, but I'm completely for moving such a
project to the oVirt umbrella. We could even have an image for thin clients
that boots into this sort of application.

> 
> Thanks,
> michal
> 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Vojtech
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Amador Pahim" <amador at pahim.org>
> >> To: devel at ovirt.org
> >> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2014 4:53:35 AM
> >> Subject: [ovirt-devel] Python-GTK User Portal
> >> 
> >> Olá,
> >> 
> >> I'm running some tests with Raspberry Pi, trying to use it as a thin
> >> client to oVirt.
> >> 
> >> My initial test was just open web User Portal using a browser. But
> >> RasPi limited performance is leading browser to repeatedly show the
> >> warning for "unresponsive script" before load the portal.
> >> 
> >> Trying to have a lighter way to access oVirt with the same functions
> >> as in "Basic" User Portal, I wrote this Python-GTK client. Its
> >> performance in RasPi is quite acceptable currently.
> 
> >> 
> >> I'm wondering if you guys have any interest in putting the bits
> >> somewhere along with the project repositories. Maybe in
> >> "samples-portals"?
> >> 
> >> Source code:
> >> https://github.com/apahim/ovirt-userportal-gtk
> >> 
> >> Here a screenshot with it in action:
> >> http://pbrd.co/1onSA7O
> >> 
> >> Best Regards,
> >> --
> >> Pahim
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