[patch] first pass at "Computer"

[Kay Sievers]

On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 18:29 -0400, Joe Shaw wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 23:36 +0200, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > Looks good and makes pretty good sense to use the tdl_to_gdl functions
> > in my opinion.
> 
> Ok, I'll commit it.
> 
> > One thing we probably want for the computer HalDevice would be callouts;
> 
> I think we get this for free just by virtue of being added to the GDL,
> no?
> 
> > I suspect external things to HAL like xorg.version, os.name, os.release
> > etc. may be set there (by just checking/reading e.g. /etc/fedora-release
> > on Fedora and so on). We might want to set stuff on the HalDevice like
> > kernel.name, kernel.version in hal using uname(2), I suppose?
> 
> Yeah, the kernel stuff definitely makes sense.  There's lots of good
> stuff that could go in here. :)
> 
> > Btw, I'm just making these property names up, haven't given it much
> > thought what to include and how to name it :-). I think that the goal of
> > having such properties would be to have more information when merging
> > from device information files; secondary goals (crackful?) could be use
> > of the icon for "Computer" in Nautilus - huhhoh, /me hides ;-)
> 
> Yeah, this would give us tremendous flexibility in FDI files and
> callouts by being able to do different things on different kernels and
> different OSes.  We might want to special case it so that Computer's
> properties are always exposed to callouts, since they're that useful.

Here is the badly missing icon for the "Computer" in the device-
manager :)

Kay
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