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I know this kind of goes against the web - based pricipal of ZM... but further functionality / beauty / client-ship would be instantaneous if there were a nice gtk gui for ZM
Is there a project like this out there yet?
I'd be willing to donate whatever applicable skills I have to offer.....
I'm not a coder but I can crunch bugs and beta...
What do ya' say? any GTK devs out there?

I know it's not much but a 100 $ paypal donation will be put to the ZM project
If such a product is created (in a continued development manner) and gpl'd.

i started a project in real basic but i cant do c.
Id agree it would be nice the lad who i feel would be best placed for this is maciec who has already released a shared mem viewer

I think that the advent of a gtk gui would really propel this project into a whole other class. I've been using the project for 2 or 3 months overall and testing various other windows based products....
This is the ONE thing that holds the product back from being 100%
Thanks for agreeing

Slightly left field thought on this:

Isn't James Wilson's Windows frontend a .NET app? Presumably it could be given a GTK# interface as well and run under mono . . .

I was looking into using wxWidgets for a cross platform frontend since I use both windows and linux platforms. But I am sure GTK and FLTK would be just as good.

Though, I have one client that wants a good stream to be sent to his phone so I have been looking into 3gp streaming. (though not getting to far with that yet)

I dont want to have to connect directly to the mysql db for details so I have been looking into ways such as soap,xml-rpc,xhttprequest to query and retrieve data.

I am in the early stages so someone else may come up with something better before me and I am kinda waiting for when the next version comes out before putting to much more then prelim work in.

my front end is a .net2 app, currently (i believe) mono is only supporting .net 1.0 and 1.1 but 2 is around the corner, seen as we have .net 3 now in ms id be betting .net2 is close if not available. I for one will be happy to rewrite zm4ms to fit mono once we have basic .net2 calls

jameswilson wrote:my front end is a .net2 app, currently (i believe) mono is only supporting .net 1.0 and 1.1 but 2 is around the corner, seen as we have .net 3 now in ms id be betting .net2 is close if not available. I for one will be happy to rewrite zm4ms to fit mono once we have basic .net2 calls

Dont know when you last looked, but 2 is there now it seems.

J

might be worth a look, any mono experts in the house, or do i need to read tonnes?

I just thought that it might be a way to have a solid interface for searching .archiving and dumping to dvd / cd.
perhaps just a remote?

I just thought that it might be a way to have a solid interface for searching .archiving and dumping to dvd / cd.
perhaps just a remote?

I haven't tried it with the latest version of ZM, but check out MythZoneMinder in conjunction with MythTV:

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/MythZoneMinder

It's not fully featured yet, but tight integration with MythtTV could become quite useful. If ZM could use Myth's PictureInPicture features to display alarms, it would never fully interrupt you while watching media, but still keep all MythTV users/frontends aware of ZM events Burning shouldn't be too hard to add since MythTV already has facilities for it.

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Keep ZM as it is . Adding opensource middleware connectors can however be an option for the GTK fan's amongst you. This might also open other path's for other application integrations.
But the downside will be that the number of releases and usability improvements will go down (middleware is complex ,and adding it is adding to the degree of complexity of the whole ZM project).
The upside is that popularity for ZM will rise.
That's my opinion as a current member of Web Application Engineer team of some major telecom company for which I'm working now.

As for my private opinion : don't touch a machine that works.