Hi Vijay, Attached g-d-m pkgs built from SFE. You'd better run on SNV_75 or later. To see more properties, pleae note tick toggle botton from menu "view"->"Device Properties".
g-d-m author David Zeuthen <davidz at redhat.com> is also HAL author on HAL community. As I know there's a long TODO list, something like this. - write a small daemon to bring up "errors", "warnings" and "notices" using libnotify. Also display a tray icon if any of the device objects have "errors", "warnings" or "notices" - make it possible to activate gnome-device-manager via the D-Bus session bus If you guys would like to work with David together, I guess he must be happy. Please feel free to talk with him. And for Solaris-special HAL issue, please contact with Strony and Aterm. I suppose they would like to help.:) Regards, -Simon On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 08:04 +0530, vijay upreti wrote: > Can you send related information on gnome based device manager. I > would definitely like to have a look. Also I have some engineering > ready to work on this. So please let me know the respective pointers. > > Vijay > > simon.zheng wrote: > > Vijay Upreti wrote: > > > > > Hi Simon, > > > > > > Thanks for your response. > > > > > > The requirement I am putting forward need not have HAL database > > > association. As mentioned that most of the H/W device information can > > > be easily obtained using existing commands or teaking little bit more > > > with system to get the output as needed. > > > > > > I haven't yet tried gnome base device manager tool, but if the work is > > > exactly same as mentioned in the requirement then of course its going > > > to be a duplicated effort. > > > > > > Just to understand the roadmap for gnome-device-manager, is that > > > planned to be incorporated in the future Navada builds? or is it going > > > to be just an extra tool to play with? I am only aiming to have a > > > Navada based feature which can reach to larger user community due to > > > its simplicity and effectiveness. > > > > > Yes. Putting g-d-m into Nevada is our desire too. Strony and me did some > > investigation and made a simple prototype several month ago. Because we > > haven't enough resource, it was going slowly now. Anyway Strony is > > working hard for HAL improvement. Once Solaris HAL and > > gnome-device-manager GUI mature further, this tool is easily integrated. > > My idea is we should invest more resource to develop > > gnome-device-manager on HAL community and then port to Solaris. It's a > > good chance for you to participate in their archeticure design. > > > > Thanks, > > -Simon > > > > > Do you have any demo for the gnome-device-manager? > > > > > > Vijay > > > simon.zheng at sun.com wrote: > > > > > > > Hi Vijay, > > > > > > > > Thanks for your proposal. I'm totally agree with the importance of this > > > > project. But I have some concerns. > > > > > > > > The current trend of UNIX desktop device management is based on HAL, > > > > which is a well-designed hardware abstract layer independent of special > > > > OS. > > > > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/hal > > > > > > > > For OpenSolaris, Aterm and other guys has done a lot of job for porting > > > > HAL to Solaris. Please see project page. > > > > http://opensolaris.org/os/project/tamarack/ > > > > > > > > The popular way is HAL stores all device info in its database, and > > > > desktop applications operate device through HAL. More and more > > > > application are doing like this, e.g. gnome-power-manager. > > > > > > > > Since HAL (Solaris-special backend) has considered a lot of > > > > Solaris-special features, such as RBAC, auditing. If we develop a new > > > > GUI tool without HAL, many jobs that HAL done have to repeat. I think > > > > it's a backward. So I suggest we should think over again for this > > > > proposal. > > > > > > > > Furthermore, HAL community has also made some effort for managing device > > > > tool. Before HAL 0.5.9, a GUI tool called hal-device-manager is shipped > > > > with HAL, which is able to list and update all devices info on system. > > > > But unfortunately it can't add/remove device. So for this reason, a new > > > > GUI called gnome-device-manager is created when HAL 0.5.10. This tool is > > > > already available on our SFE repository. You can build and try. > > > > > > > > Currently we're trying to port gnome-device-manager to Solaris. Atem and > > > > Strony from HAL team are working for supporting more Solaris devices in > > > > HAL, and JDS team are getting involved in GUI development on HAL > > > > community. > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > -Simon > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 07:17 +0530, vijay upreti wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > I am submitting a one pager to have project proposal on Device > > > > > Manager > > > > > tool. Aim is to reach to desktop users, who need to add, upgrade or > > > > > troubleshoot driver. Currently if you need to have these in place you > > > > > have command line options to get this done. The GUI will make it easy > > > > > to > > > > > get this done. > > > > > > > > > > I appreciate your comments and views on the project one pager. > > > > > > > > > > Many thanks in advance. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Regards > > > > > Vijay Upreti > > > > > Sun Microsystems India Pvt. 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