Next steps in LCDproc

[markus2330]

@kodebach wrote in #2815:

• Using the ini plugin doesn't work, because of the multiline description metakeys. (I switched to ni for now, but its file format is not ideal).
• Parts of the specifications are still commented out because of the max plugins issue.
• Not all drivers are updated. The specification is based on the old example LCDd.conf; not all config keys for drivers are included. The updated drivers have a full specification.
• Once all drivers are updated, the rather big specification for LCDd will probably slow down the server start-up time as well as any (cascading) kdb operation that calls the spec plugin on the relevant mountpoint. Dynamically enabling/disabling parts of the specification would be nice, although I don't see any way to do this right now.
• Improving the spec plugin performance would also be nice, but again, I don't know how.
• Various known issues with the kdb tool that make using it hard. Especially the fact that kdb set -N user <cascading-key>, may result in a broken configuration (because of the origvalue metadata).

[markus2330]

Using the ini plugin doesn't work, because of the multiline description metakeys. (I switched to ni for now, but its file format is not ideal).

@bauhaus93 is working on it with the new TOML format

Parts of the specifications are still commented out because of the max plugins issue.

@vLesk is working on it

Not all drivers are updated. The specification is based on the old example LCDd.conf; not all config keys for drivers are included. The updated drivers have a full specification.

Yes, some more drivers would be nice, @bauhaus93 said he will add support for one driver.

Various known issues with the kdb tool that make using it hard. Especially the fact that kdb set -N user , may result in a broken configuration (because of the origvalue metadata).

@kodebach Which is the issue number for this?

[kodebach]

Yes, some more drivers would be nice, @bauhaus93 said he will add support for one driver.

Adding new drivers is not much of a problem. It's quite straight forward, I also wrote instructions for it. The problem is more testing everything still works.

Which is the issue number for this?

[EDIT by @markus2330, moved to #3056]

[markus2330]

Adding new drivers is not much of a problem. It's quite straight forward, I also wrote instructions for it. The problem is more testing everything still works.

As discussed with @haraldg this will be mostly community effort.

I have not yet investigated, where the origvalue metakey even comes from, as it should be removed by keySetString

Moved to #3056.

[markus2330]

Moved to ElektraInitiative/lcdproc#13