On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 13:41 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Richard Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said:
> > I am hesitant to add this functionality to g-p-m as this is not a "core"
> > power-management role, and I don't want to turn g-p-m into a
> > "jack-of-all-trades" type daemon... but there is only 2 lines of code
> > added to produce the screenshot attached -- all the libhal and libnotify
> > type infrastructure in g-p-m can be already used for this.
>
> Well, that just means the libhal and libnotify type infrastructure
> shouldn't be solely in g-p-m.
>
> Realistically, there should be some sort of system-level daemon
> that handles this. Some potential issues to tackle:
>
> - How to not warn excessively about a device for which no driver
> exists.
> - How to catch events from coldplug that happen before HAL, etc.
> is started.
> - How to handle actually finding and getting the firmware. (drivers
> are even uglier.)
Sounds more like the purview of gnome-volume-manager.
Robert Love
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