intrigeri:
> sajolida wrote (19 Feb 2015 14:23:03 GMT) :
>> intrigeri:
>>> I thought about it
>>> a bit harder, and now it's not obvious to me what we would gain by
>>> merging the two tools we need into a single one:
>>>
>>> * Tails could start the Tor bootstrap and time sync progress monitor.
>>> Upon completion, this piece of software would either just
>>> terminate, or (if we need a permanent indicator that's tight to the
>>> actual Tor status) start Tor Monitor --hide-in-taskbar, that would
>>> display some onion.
>>>
>>> * Anyone else would just use Tor Monitor.
>>>
>>> And then this topic becomes mostly orthogonal to the current
>>> discussion, I think :)
>
>> That would work. It would cut the visible part of things into two: Tor
>> Monitor (with status icon) and progress bar (while starting Tor).
>
>> But couldn't the Tor progress bar be generic as well? I'm not sure but
>> it could make sense on my regular Debian when starting or restart Tor as
>> well. Then even the progress bar is in Debian and not Tails specific.
>
> That would be ideal, but the way we bootstrap Tor connectivity in
> Tails is strongly coupled with our time sync' thing, which isn't
> exactly generic, e.g. we sometimes restart Tor in the middle of this
> process (we do that after changing the system time, and also when we
> failed to get a consensus on first attempt). It might be that some day
> little-t-tor gives us everything we need out-of-the-box to change
> this, but we're not there yet. In the current state of things, I don't
> see how we can implement what you're suggesting, but perhaps anonym,
> who knows this area of our codebase quite better than me, will have
> better ideas.
Sorry, I forgot about the time sync mess :)
