tazpanel annotate README @ rev 117

settings.cgi: Password entry on bottom (small ajustement, well done Pascal)
author Christophe Lincoln <pankso@slitaz.org>
date Fri Apr 15 12:11:44 2011 +0200 (2011-04-15)
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pankso@0 1 SliTaz Web Control Panel
pankso@0 2 ================================================================================
pankso@0 3
pankso@0 4
paul@52 5 Tazpanel is the SliTaz Control Panel, a web interface which lets you manage the
paul@52 6 full system in a radically simple way. The output xHTML code is valid xHTML 5
pankso@112 7 and all theming is done with standard CSS 3. TazPanel is published under a
pankso@112 8 BSD License.
pankso@0 9
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pankso@44 11 Use it!
pankso@44 12 ------
pankso@44 13 You can clone the tazpanel repo into /var/www/tazpanel and work on this
paul@52 14 copy or clone it somewhere else and 'make install'. After, add tazpanel to
pankso@44 15 your /etc/hosts, type './tazpanel start' to start the server and go to the
paul@82 16 URL: http://tazpanel:82. Panel user and password is defined in httpd.conf
pankso@46 17 and default is root:root
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pankso@44 19
pankso@19 20 i18n
pankso@19 21 ----
paul@52 22 TazPanel has been coded from the beginning with gettext support. Please
pankso@19 23 forget 'echo' and use gettext, but remember that gettext "" is equivalent
paul@52 24 to echo -n. All scripts use the same TEXTDOMAIN and the same pot files, all
paul@52 25 translations go in the po/ folder. To start a new translation please
pankso@27 26 use msginit from the pot file directory. Example for French/France
pankso@27 27 locale (fr_FR):
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pankso@27 29 $ msginit -l fr_FR -o fr.po -i tazpanel.pot
pankso@27 30
paul@82 31 To update all translations from a newly updated pot file:
pankso@27 32
pankso@27 33 $ make msgmerge
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pankso@19 35
pankso@19 36 User interface
pankso@19 37 --------------
paul@52 38 If you develop an official SliTaz GUI for TazPanel, please follow the style.
paul@52 39 If you need more CSS markup and you are not a coder, please ask an official
paul@52 40 developer for the best way to implement your idea. TazPanel is fully themable
pankso@19 41 and more than one theme can be installed, this will let us make packages
paul@52 42 in a TazPanel style! All the GUI is done with xHTML 5 and CSS 3, some
paul@52 43 javascript can be used, but with precautions... one more time, it's better
paul@52 44 to check with a main contributor before adding too much stuff, the goal is,
paul@52 45 as for the all SliTaz projects: KISS
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pankso@19 48 CGI template and files
pankso@19 49 ----------------------
pankso@19 50 To start or test new function with TazPanel you will find a a file in
paul@52 51 utils/template.cgi that needs to be in the $PANEL root to work, all TazPanel
pankso@19 52 CGI scripts are in that location. If you think your code is too big to fit
paul@52 53 in another script you can eventually create a new CGI page and update all
pankso@19 54 links, but please to talk to the AUTHORS before.
pankso@19 55
pankso@112 56 * index.cgi Main Tazpanel CGI script
pankso@112 57 * boot.cgi All what appens before login
paul@52 58 * network.cgi All related stuff to networking (eth, wifi, services)
pankso@46 59 * pkgs.cgi Tazpkg packages CGI interface
pankso@112 60 * settings.cgi System settings and services such as time, users
pankso@46 61 accounts, locales or daemons management
pankso@46 62 * live.cgi All tools related to Live systems (CD, USB, Frugal)
pankso@46 63 * hardware.cgi Devices drivers, firmware, printing
pankso@44 64
paul@52 65 For common functions have a look to lib/libtazpanel, you may found functions
paul@82 66 you need already coded such as a xhtml_header to get the style header.html
paul@52 67 in your CGI script. For the loading message you can use loading_msg. When
pankso@46 68 cat is used: `gettext "Text to translate"`
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pankso@19 70
pankso@0 71 Web server
pankso@0 72 ----------
paul@82 73 Tazpanel can run with the Busybox httpd applet or LightTPD and probably Apache.
paul@52 74 Start the webserver with a custom config to listen only on a local port for
paul@52 75 security reasons since we run as root to perform system actions, example:
pankso@0 76
pankso@37 77 # httpd -p 8090 u root -c /etc/slitaz/httpd.conf
pankso@0 78
pankso@17 79 Or use tazpanel cmdline:
pankso@17 80
pankso@19 81 # ./tazpanel start
pankso@49 82
pankso@49 83
pankso@49 84 ================================================================================