user interfaces for samba4 or samba3 configuration

[simo]

On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 11:42 -0400, derrell at samba.org wrote:
> "Stefan (metze) Metzmacher" <metze at samba.org> writes:
> 
> > derrell at samba.org schrieb:
> >> I have two potential exercises to play with at the CIFS conference.  If there
> >> is interest from the samba4 team, I'd like to see if it's possible to allow
> >> replacing ejs with SpiderMonkey (the javascript engine used in Firefox).  I
> >> would hope to implement this in such a way that SpiderMonkey would be a
> >> drop-in replacement for ejs, i.e. the ejs functions already being
> >> auto-generated would be enhanced, if necessary, with context information
> >> required by SpiderMonkey user-added functions, but left in place so that ejs
> >> could still be used if desired.  (This makes the most sense, I think, at least
> >> until it is decided that SpiderMonkey can easily entirely replace ejs.)  In
> >> order to do this work, I will require some assistance with making the pidl (?) 
> >> changes necessary to add SpiderMonkey context information to the generated
> >> javascript-enhancement user functions.  Once SpiderMonkey is in place and
> >> working, a much more elaborate gui could be developed much more easily.
> >> 
> >
> > Does that mean that you could start the gui as a standalone like
> > application?
> >
> > I think it would be really cool to have a gui that can be used via the
> > browser and also as standalone application, while using the same code.
> 
> No, it doesn't mean that.  qooxdoo is an application framework written in
> javascript.  the javascript is downloaded from the web server and runs locally
> on your browser.  It requires a rendering engine (your browser) to display the
> widgets that the javascript code implements.  SpiderMonkey is the javascript
> engine, not the rendering engine.
> 
> It would certainly be possible to write a non-browser-based application, but
> you need _something_ to render those pretty pictures on the screen.

And you still need the server to send the RPCs to :-)

Simo.

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Simo Sorce
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