[Alexandria-list] Slovak translation and using a webcam as a barcode scanner

[Cathal Mc Ginley]

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On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 02:48:18 +0100
Andreas Kotes <count-linux at flatline.de> wrote:

> The idea was to have AGSP (Alexandria Generic Scanner Protocol), and
> there were simulators on http://slop.flatline.de/agsp-scanner.pl and
> http://slop.flatline.de/agsp-alexandria.pl for both sides.
> 
> Cathal did an integration into Alexandria against the client simulator
> and put them on http://www.gnostai.org/tmp/alexandria-0.6.3.1.tar.gz

Okay, I'd totally forgotten that I uploaded the code anywhere. I'd been
hunting around for the e-mail conversation...

> I think by now it's straightforward - apart from the things that need
> to be finished we'd need an implementation of a CueCat scanner client

Hm, I think it'd still be easier to deal with keyboard wedge scanners
through some kind of text widget.

> to keep the old functionality and could even replace the old code
> completely - making AGSP the default for 0.6.4 final.

I won't be adding *any* new features between the beta release and 0.6.4
final. The longstanding tooltips bugs in 0.6.3 have convinced me of
that. In any case, it's a major new feature and warrants a 0.7 release.
I'm going to announce a "string freeze" for translators this weekend,
and hopefully release 0.6.4 the week after.

On another note, if external (non-ruby) clients want to interact with
Alexandria, perhaps it would be best to do so in a GNOME-ish way, and
use D-Bus. Rather than defining an ad-hoc TCP protocol. Something to
experiment with, anyway...

   -   Cathal
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