HAL, new things

[Bill Nottingham]

David Zeuthen (david at fubar.dk) said: 
> You're mixing matters here which is slightly confusing; you probably
> mean you want some desktop program running in the session (like
> gnome-volume-manager) that reacts to events from HAL and does the right
> thing.
> 
> >  "You have a device that would work, if
> > you install the required firmware" (IANAL: never mentioning where to get
> > the firmware in question, cough, livna, cough :-)
> 
> IANAL either but I think this is OK.

The other interesting part here is that the notification of missing
firmware is, in most cases, going to be triggered before any of
haldaemon or the desktop is running. This isn't saying it's not
possible, but there's probably going to have to be some queueing
of events here.

Bill