On Tue, 5 May 2009 14:05:37 -0300 Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <[email protected]> said:
> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Nick Hughart <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, 5 May 2009 10:32:08 +0200 > > Luca De Marini <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> 2009/5/5 Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <[email protected]> > >> > >> > http://blog.fubar.dk/?p=105 > >> > > >> > short summary: gnome is leading the move away from HAL to DeviceKit. > >> > > >> > Dave, maybe we should take on this and follow they steps? I don't > >> > know about device kit, but it's meant to be a simple thing, at least > >> > compared to the huge beast that is hal. > >> > > >> > > >> If I can just say my opinion, Gnome is a very important DE, many of > >> the apps we use everyday are built in GTK, Firefox included (and > >> openoffice for example), so I believe staying compatible with Gnome > >> is very important for us. I'm not saying this because I lead OpenGEU > >> only. Sure it is important for me, but in general, I think it would > >> be useless for people having a Gnome session installed to have Hal > >> too just because they use E17 and the places module requires it. > >> I say let's follow Gnome's decision on this :) > >> Dave, tell me if you think it differently.. > >> Greats, > > > > It's not a matter of conforming, HAL is going away. It is barely > > supported as is and will be completely obsolete as soon as device-kit > > makes it's way into most distributions/software. So compatibility has > > nothing to do with it, HAL has been a sinking ship for awhile now. > > I agree. but like all things - we cant move until it becomes common. a lot of people arent going to instantly upgrade top the latest distro. wewill need to have both hal and devicekit code and work in both systems, so that means the hal stuff will still need to work and live for a few years. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
