Sometimes we want its "remember path" behaviour but it does not make sense to
parent the dialog from main window. When so, caller code no longer needs to
get a reference to a main window.
Also rm last usages of get_parent_main_window().
Just makes sense in general.
Also, previously, the GUI would freeze if right after startup the user
clicked the hww status bar icon (especially with multiple hww connected).
previously, client.handler was sometimes
- an InstallWizard
- a QtHandlerBase where win was an ElectrumWindow
- a QtHandlerBase where win was an InstallWizard
- a CmdLineHandler
That's just too much dynamic untyped undocumented polymorphism...
Now it will never be an InstallWizard (replaced with QtHandlerBase where win is an InstallWizard),
and now in all cases client.handler is an instance of HardwareHandlerBase, yay.
related: #6063
so we don't need pyrcc5, which is not deterministic,
and so we don't need the submodule for the icons
based on electrumsv/electrumsv@bf8802c2eaf0bf75565b5423a95bcb85ec7eb781
Benefits of this rewrite include:
- support of disconnecting / reconnecting a device without having
to close the wallet, even in a different USB socket
- support of multiple keepkey / trezor devices, both during wallet
creation and general use
- wallet is watching-only dynamically according to whether the
associated device is currently plugged in or not
Break out the workflow logic of the install wizard
into a base class. This means reimplementing with
full support in a new GUI is now easy; you just provide
ways to request passwords, show messages etc. The API
is fully documented in the base class.
There are a couple of minor outstanding issues, including that
the old messages shown when recovering a wallet are missing.
I will come back to that. Ledger wallet might be broken.
Other improvements:
The install wizard code is now easy to follow and understand.
Hardware wallets can now be restored without any need for their
accompanying libraries.
Various bits of trustedcoin were broken and have been fixed.
Many plugin hooks can be removed. I have only started on this.
Sander van Grieken
SomberNight
matejcik
Calin Culianu
Janus
Johann Bauer
Jochen Hoenicke
ThomasV
Neil Booth