Thoughts about libhal-storage

[David Zeuthen]

On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 18:44 +0200, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> > We can also add a set of extra icons identifiers (e.g.for
> > HAL_STORAGE_ICON_VOLUME_COMPACT_FLASH we would also have
> > HAL_STORAGE_ICON_VOLUME_COMPACT_FLASH_MOUNTED) though I'm not sure this
> > is a good idea - primarily because "being mounted or not" is not
> > something that is an attribute of the media or drive - it's an attribute
> > of how it's used - on the same note we shouldn't have icons for a disc
> > with a DVD movie because the fact it's a DVD movie is the contents of
> > the media, not an inherent property of the media. In GNOME the way this
> > is envisioned to work is by using emblems on top of icons, does KDE have
> > a similar scheme?
> 
> Just wondering. But is it really a good idea to push this into libhal-storage ?
> 
> Why not let the desktop(s) do the mapping in one of their own libraries ?
> Probably gnome-vfs for gnome and i-have-no-idea-what for KDE :) 
> 

Well, the thinking is that the policy for selecting icons and names (the
text underneath icons) would be shared then. I'm not 100% positive it's
a good idea, might be a bit tied to assuming that all desktops have
functionality to put emblems on top of icons, we'll see...

Thanks,
David


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