General questions about HAL

[Dik Takken]

On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, Artem Kachitchkine wrote:

> I strongly believe that all user customizations must be done on the desktop 
> side, say if you're running GNOME with g-v-m and gnome-mount, GConf, you only 
> need to look in GConf. Take Dik Takken's example - there is no reason g-v-m 
> couldn't allow to specify commands to run on device insertion (per device 
> type, per device instance, or other criteria).

I strongly agree here.. :) Unfortunely my desktop (KDE) has very basic HAL 
integration, you can't get it to call a script when some detailed event 
description is matched. So, I need to write fdi files to get what I want. 
Personally, I think that as long as HAL desktop integration is still 
quite basic, HAL should make it easy for users to customize event 
handling. Just as a short-term solution, of course.

> HAL is an open development (well almost ;) Anyone can make suggestion or 
> feature requests.

I know too little about how desktop environments interface into HAL and 
how that could be improved. I think I should stick to filing wishlist 
items in the bug tracking system of my desktop.

Dik