Correction: On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 17:09 +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote: > Garrett D'Amore wrote: > > Does the HAL run independent of the desktop environment? I've not > > looked at it, but somehow I was under the impression that the HAL was a > > gnome-ish thing that got started with the rest of the desktop startup. > > YES. > > HAL != GNOME > > HAL !=> any window system at all. > > Likewise > > DBUS != GNOME > > DBUS !=> any window system at all. > > Whats more HAL and DBUS are both delivered from ONNV not any desktop layer.
Actually, D-Bus _is_ delivered by JDS. D-Bus has a dependency on glib, (for dbus-glib, which is not used by HAL). glib is also != GNOME (not even GUI), but it is closely related, and is shipped in SUNWgnome-base-libs. Laca > They were added by the Tamarack project: > > http://opensolaris.org/os/project/tamarack/hal_and_dbus.txt > > The Tamarack project even provided a removable media manager using > HAL/DBUS that doesn't require any desktop system. > > > If so, then it is less useful as a generic API for CLI access, IMO. > > I wouldn't have suggested it if it depended on any GUI system :-) > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
