Pandora Os Snippet 3
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Vorporeal
Yes, no, I, this is.
I assume you can mount it if you want to see/modify the contents.
second exodous
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Yeah, I just thought if you navigated to the sd card you could edit things on your Pandora so you wouldn't even need a computer.
Consequence_9
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They're just standard archives (I wanna say zip?), so yes, you should be able to view/modify them with ease.darien said:
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Vorporeal
Yes, no, I, this is.
second exodous said:
The Pandora's running Linux too... I'm saying that because the PND is an ISO with one or two files tacked on, you can probably just mount it like you'd mount an ISO. Even if that's not possible, I'm sure libpnd has support for it somewhere.
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WizardStan
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As I understand, it mounts the PND to a hashed directory (which you can visit) in order to execute.Vorporeal said:
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skeezix
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libpnd is a bunch of stuff; pndnotifyd is the daemon that watches for files ot move or directories to appear etc, and then creates/removes .desktop files in response. When you run a .desktop, the Exec line refers to a pnd_run.sh with various arguments to invoke the pnd-file. I've also build pnd_run (binary, not sh-script) which parses the PXML.xml and then invokes pnd_run.sh for you, so you cna run pnds directly without figuring out the pnd_run.sh arguments. That all said, pnd_run.sh includes command line arguments for mounting the pnd onto a dir of your choce, and late runmounting it. Normally an exrecute is mount, run, and unmount .. but you cna do it in stages if you like .. mount, inspect and futz with, and unmount.
As the ISO-part of the pnd is at the front, you can in fact open up a PND with an iso tool and get a peek (though if you save it, you'll probabyl lose the icon and appended PXML.xml, so best to use pnd-aware tools to do that and thus preserve that information.)
To override files, just drop them in the appdata and the app will just see them as if they're in the pnd-file, without needing to modify the pnd-file itself.
It is pretty awesome, if I do say so myself
Currently ISO and SquashFS is supported as the payload format, but we can support a long list of types pretty trivially .. its mostly a question of performance etc.
SquashFS and ISO are easy to make on pretty much all OSes, so should be very handy.
jeff
As the ISO-part of the pnd is at the front, you can in fact open up a PND with an iso tool and get a peek (though if you save it, you'll probabyl lose the icon and appended PXML.xml, so best to use pnd-aware tools to do that and thus preserve that information.)
To override files, just drop them in the appdata and the app will just see them as if they're in the pnd-file, without needing to modify the pnd-file itself.
It is pretty awesome, if I do say so myself
Currently ISO and SquashFS is supported as the payload format, but we can support a long list of types pretty trivially .. its mostly a question of performance etc.
SquashFS and ISO are easy to make on pretty much all OSes, so should be very handy.
jeff
Is there some sort of global pnd config file?
I'm thinking it would be nice to customize things like where to search for PND files and what to do with them.
I'm thinking it would be nice to customize things like where to search for PND files and what to do with them.
I would prefer this to be specified in the config file (with those values as default) allowing the user to change it to whatever if they want, or just leave them at default values.skeezix said:
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dflemstr
It's a ball.
Yes, they're in "/etc/pandora/conf". Take a look at the deployment /etc/pandora folder to see them.Yoyobuae said:
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Interesting.
Can new "sections" be added to "/etc/pandora/conf/desktop"?
For example adding one that searches for emulator PNDs in some path, but "spits" the .desktop files into Desktop/Emulators instead.
It seems that all of it is configurable, so I'm happy. It's just matter of tweaking the config file (like everything in Linux).
Can new "sections" be added to "/etc/pandora/conf/desktop"?
For example adding one that searches for emulator PNDs in some path, but "spits" the .desktop files into Desktop/Emulators instead.
It seems that all of it is configurable, so I'm happy. It's just matter of tweaking the config file (like everything in Linux
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skeezix
Internal Development
Also see the libpnd hub wiki, which has the developer level docs. The conf examples are out of date mind you, but the docs are good.
For now, /etc/pandora/conf/desktop has only two sections and its aware of them, but one of these days I'm going to make it just iterate across any 'unknown' sections and just add them to the queue of searchpath->targets which could be handy. For now it knows about the two sectoins, but you can of course direct them to anywhere.
libpnd stuff doesnm't need a lot of configuration, but I made the conf system way overkill; you can turn the conf-file searchpath to include SD cards, and then override confs just by dropping copies onto your SD, without modifying NAND, say. (I had it doing that until very recently, but for security I have disabled some of the searchpaths scope .. ie: pnd_run.sh is now only looked for in NAND, just to make it a little harder to root yourself)
So yeah, you should be pretty happy .. nothing is hardcoded hardly. Its all script and conf behaviour, with directions from the daemons.. so you cna alter a script and do whatever you like
jeff
For now, /etc/pandora/conf/desktop has only two sections and its aware of them, but one of these days I'm going to make it just iterate across any 'unknown' sections and just add them to the queue of searchpath->targets which could be handy. For now it knows about the two sectoins, but you can of course direct them to anywhere.
libpnd stuff doesnm't need a lot of configuration, but I made the conf system way overkill; you can turn the conf-file searchpath to include SD cards, and then override confs just by dropping copies onto your SD, without modifying NAND, say. (I had it doing that until very recently, but for security I have disabled some of the searchpaths scope .. ie: pnd_run.sh is now only looked for in NAND, just to make it a little harder to root yourself)
So yeah, you should be pretty happy .. nothing is hardcoded hardly. Its all script and conf behaviour, with directions from the daemons.. so you cna alter a script and do whatever you like
jeff
