[ovirt-devel] Python-GTK User Portal

[Amador Pahim]

On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 8:16 AM, Antoni Segura Puimedon
<asegurap at redhat.com> wrote:
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> ----- 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
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>> On May 27, 2014, at 12:48 , Vojtech Szocs <vszocs at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> > 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 :)

Good. I'm sending it there :)

>> >
>> > 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.

Looking forward to have it.

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>> 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...

Indeed. The SDK made it incredible simple. Not sure if we have it, but
I did not see the ".vv" file download with SDK. It could make console
access even easier. I will look deeper into this and, if not a
feature, request/discuss it in bugzilla.

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> 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.

I'm using Pidora and currently the only missing package is
virt-manager, so I'm using spicy (spice-gtk-tools). With some commands
we can make Pidora boot into the userportal-gtk. Also, there is the
RPi Thin Client Project - "RPi TC" (http://rpitc.blogspot.com.br/)
that delivers the image with various VDI clients and it does includes
a virt-manager build. So I think we can have both... a Pidora custom
image booting into userportal-gtk and the client itself included in
RPi TC.

Thank you guys for the support.