General questions about HAL

[Kevin Ottens]

Le Mardi 21 Février 2006 16:23, Niki Kovacs a écrit :
> So, first things first, a general question about HAL. Is it possible to
> achieve transparent handling of removable devices with HAL? E. g. plug in a
> usb stick, thing gets mounted under /mnt/usbstick, for example. Plug in a
> usb mass storage camera, thing gets mounted under /mnt/camera and doesn't
> interfere with the usb stick.

Well, KDE supports this since 3.4, GNOME support is even older (IIRC).
For the given use case both should work.

> Other general question: if HAL applies as a candidate for what I want it to
> do, how stable (e. g. production-ready) is it?

Well, I'd better let David give his opinion on this. All I can say is that 
it's used daily on the desktop of a lot of people since several distributions 
ship HAL.

Regards.
-- 
Kévin 'ervin' Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net
"Ni le maître sans disciple, Ni le disciple sans maître,
Ne font reculer l'ignorance."
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