On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 09:30:21PM -0600, DJ Lucas wrote: > I'll be revisiting it Friday, but I believe that we should add Hal as a > recommended dependency for Xorg (after testing and confirmation of > course). A couple of policy examples will *have* to be added into the > book. I'm en_US pc105, so I really have nothing interesting to add for > examples. Suggestions/examples/patches appreciated.
Disappointed. The main list I read is lkml, and hal always seems to be related to *problems*. Tried it once, couldn't get it to run (that was on x86_64, at least two years ago) and couldn't get any diagnostic info from it. I keep seeing comments that a replacement is underway, but for the moment I have it filed under "don't touch with a bargepole". Perhaps I'm in a minority of 1 here, but I don't see the point of things putting icons on my desktop - I've only got 1600x1200 pixels to start with, and a lot less after urxvt and firefox are open at useful sizes. If I wanted to click on pictures to run programs I would have stayed with windows. I'm in agreement with the the phrase "Really, the ideal thing is to not use HAL anymore." in http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2009-January/042810.html although I might not like the replacement any better. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
