Drakxtools development documentation

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Due to using a bunch of specific software components, techniques and programming languages, "diving in" Mandriva specific software components (DrakX, urpmi, Mandriva Control Center, etc) is not blatantly obvious. Here is a good starting point, if you want to fix bugs or contribute features to Mandriva software components.
Before you continue :
Bear in mind that most Mandriva tools (such as DrakX, urpmi, rpmdrake, drakconf, etc) use Perl libraries :
  • perl-MDK-Common: is a set of generic library functions aimed at producing better code (shorter, more readable, more functional)
  • ugtk2.pm: is a set of functions allowing more object-style and functional gtk2-interface code
  • interactive.pm: is a powerful GUI abstraction layer allowing to write programs that can run with a GTK interface, a newt interface or an stdio interface.

Contents

Development documentation

Human interface Guidelines and articles about GUI


Installation program

DrakX is the Mandriva Linux installation program. It's written in Perl. A good starting point is the Mandriva Installer Howto.


Control Center tools

Image:Drakconf-icon.png drakconf development

Software management

Image:Drakrpm-icon.png rpmdrake development Image:Drakrpm-update-icon.png MandrivaUpdate development
Image:Drakstats-icon.png drakstats development


Online administration

Image:rfbdrake-icon.png rfbdrake development


Hardware

• Manage your hardware
Image:harddrake2-icon.png harddrake2 development Image:draksound-icon.png draksound development
• Configure graphics
Image:Drak3d-icon.png drak3d development Image:Drakx11-icon.png drakx11 development
• Configure mouse and keyboard
Image:keyboarddrake-icon.png keyboarddrake development Image:mousedrake-icon.png mousedrake development
• Configure printing and scanning
Image:system-config-printer-icon.png system-config-printer development Image:scannerdrake-icon.png scannerdrake development
Image:drakfax-icon.png drakfax development
• Others
Image:drakups-icon.png drakups development


Network & Internet

• Manage your network devices
Image:draknetcenter-icon.png draknetcenter development Image:drakconnect-icon.png drakconnect development
Image:drakroam-icon.png drakroam development Image:Netapplet-lan-on.png net_applet development
• Personalize and secure your network
Image:drakproxy-icon.png drakproxy development Image:drakgw-icon.png drakgw development
Image:draknetprofile-icon.png draknetprofile development Image:drakvpn-icon.png drakvpn development
• Others
Image:drakhosts-icon.png drakhosts development


System

• Manage system services
Image:drakauth-icon.png drakauth development (on a network) Image:drakmenustyle-icon.png drakmenustyle development
Image:drakxservices-icon.png drakxservices development Image:drakfont-icon.png drakfont development
• Localization
Image:drakclock-icon.png drakclock development Image:draklocale-icon.png draklocale development
• Administration tools
Image:logdrake-icon.png logdrake development Image:drakconsole-icon.png drakconsole development
Image:userdrake-icon.png userdrake development Image:transfugdrake-icon.png transfugdrake development
Image:drakbackup-icon.png drakbackup development Image:draksnapshot-icon.png draksnapshot development


Network sharing

• Configure Windows(R) shares
Image:diskdrake_samba-icon.png diskdrake_samba development Image:draksambashare-icon.png draksambashare development
• Configure NFS shares
Image:diskdrake_nfs-icon.png diskdrake_nfs development Image:draknfs-icon.png draknfs development
• Configure WebDAV shares
Image:webdav-icon.png webdav development


Local disks

Image:drakdisk-icon.png diskdrake development Image:diskdrake_fileshare-icon.png diskdrake_fileshare development


Security

Image:draksec-icon.png msec development Image:drakperm-icon.png drakperm development
Image:drakfirewall-icon.png drakfirewall development Image:drakinvictus-icon.png drakinvictus development
Image:drakguard-icon.png drakguard development


Boot

Image:drakboot --boot-icon.png drakboot development Image:drakedm-icon.png drakedm development


Other tools

Generic cleanups

Add default icon to windows

rationale: when iconized or when browsing windows list, tools should be obvious to locate

We just have to reuse the icon from menu entry...

use perl-Libconf

  • better respect for altered config files
  • better data abstraction

package gi/doc from cvs as drakxtools-doc

Explain:

  • ugtk2,
  • embedding in mcc,
  • need for HIG,
  • how to do proper patches & cvs logs
  • how to add entries in mcc
  • how to use perl_checker (perl-MDK-Common-devel)


A new tool : TGZDrake/InstallDrake/CompileDrake ?

(VincentPanel 09/07/04)

  • This tool helps installing a package from sources
    • First, package gets selected
    • The tool extracts the package in a user configurable directory (by default, ~/src/<package_name>)
    • Then, the tool displays INSTALL, README and LICENSE files
    • Then, the tool asks for options to ./configure and runs it
    • Then, the tool runs make
    • Then, the tool asks for root pwd, and runs make install
  • Of course, before running and displaying anything, everything is checked (presence of files and success of the previous step)
  • May be improved : when ./configure fails, complaining about a missing file, urpmf looks for this file and installs the necessary rpm package.

I think this could have checkinstall as a dependency: make install is weak practice on an RPM-based system. liberforce

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