(I'd point out that the stagnation was due to a lack of time rather
than a lack of interest, though).
Dave.
I've been running ControlPlane for the last few days and it appears to be
working fine, except that it doesn't automatically launch on startup. I
couldn't find anything in Preferences. All I did to install it was download
and stick the app in the Applications folder. Is there something else I
should be doing? Thanks.
-Izzy
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Dustin
Dustin
1.0.3 will bring back the Bluetooth evidence source, among other things.
Dustin
Thanks for your work to update MarcoPolo. Much appreciated!
I like (in theory; not enough practise yet) the nested contexts.
Three suggestions:
1) Displaying the name of a nested contexts can take a lot of
space in the status bar. How 'bout an option to just display
the leaf of the tree?
2) One of my major uses of MarcoPolo was to switch time machine
disks when I moved between home and work. See
http://groups.google.com/group/marcopolo-discuss/browse_thread/thread/f59cf25fe5206cbc/978aaa9152f6e095?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=time+machine#978aaa9152f6e095
for the basic approach. I think this would be an uber-cool
action to have built-in.
Unfortunately, when upgrading to Lion, I'm running into
permissions problems. I've either forgotten what I did on Snow
Leopard or the permissions on /Library/Preferences and contents
have changed. Briefly, ControlPane triggers a script that
removes a link in /Library/Preferences and then creates another
link. But it doesn't have sufficient privileges to do so.
I'm reluctant to reduce the permissions on /Library/Preferences/.
Suggestions welcome.
3) I like the MarcoPolo name better than ControlPane. I'm wondering
if you could retain that name -- particularly if the original
author doesn't expect to do further enhancements.
Byron
1.0.3 should restore all of the old functionality of MarcoPolo including the Bluetooth evidence source. I made fairly significant changes to that bit of code and it seems to be stable, at least under Lion. 1.0.3 should be ready soon, I'm still learning how to handle localization which is holding it back.
As for the name, it isn't something I'm going to change back now. As I mentioned in a previous email to the list, ControlPlane refers to a location technique used in locating cell phone users. As someone who works in the wireless industry the name is just as fitting as MarcoPolo.
I changed the name because I wanted it to be clear that ControlPlane is a fork and not an official continuation of the official project. I also didn't feel it was right to take the project and claim it was "mine" without a name change. Wherever possible I make sure to mention that ControlPlane is a fork of MarcoPolo.
The original MarcoPolo source is still available and there is no reason the changes I have made couldn't be cherry picked into MarcoPolo. If someone wants to do that they can, thanks to the GPL.
Dustin
I've gotten a number of requests for time machine related actions and I do plan on implementing them in the future. Right now I'm concentrating on fixing old functionality that has stopped working because of os changes.