>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Davidsen)
>Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> The big problem on Linux seems to be that there is no such service
>> on the base OS.
>The big problem is that people want features added to the OS which
>belong as applications.
It seems that you missunderstood things.....
vold _is_ an application that blongs to the OS but it is not part of
the kernel. However volfs _is_ part os the kernel.
>> If I have the time, I will add support for it in the near future.
>>
>> If Linux likes to stay maintainable it should create a base OS service
>> with a known interface rather than allowing several GUI implementations
>> to come out with different incompatible solutions.
>This is not a base OS service, this is a behaviour which can easily be
>provided by several applications to work the way the user wishes, and it
>no more belongs in the OS than a program to play music when a user gets
>mail.
Volume management does belong into the window system. This "design" is
completely insane.
J�rg
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