KDE HAL Device Manager

[Kay Sievers]

On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 02:09:57AM +0000, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> 
> I've ported the hal-device-manager to Qt.  
> 
> http://kubuntu.org/~jr/kde-hal-device-manager/

hal-device-manager is not supposed to be used by any "normal" user. It
is just a quick hack for the developers.

> Would it be suitable to include this with HAL?

I would not do it, cause two applications for which the only difference
is the windowing toolkit does not really make sense. As said h-d-m is not
to be used by end users.

You may integrate the device view in some KDE management application
which is also be able to actually do something useful with the devices
like setting things up or store preferences for the devices. That would
actually be very useful, but just adding the same h-d-m hack with gtk
exchanged by Qt just gives us two version to support for a program
nobody else than the few HAL developers is expected to use.

> I also have some fixes for the GTK hal-device-manager I noticed while
> making this.
> 
> Should I apply for a CVS account for these?

Sure fixes are always welcome, but please send it to the list before
applying anything.

Thanks,
Kay