Need help transitioning from HAL -> udev/udisk/ueverythingelse

[Kay Sievers]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 07:53, Alex Launi <alex.launi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello hardware hackers who make life on Linux possible,
> I'm working on updating Banshee Media Player to the modern age. Currently
> Banshee is heavily dependent on HAL which makes it not so usable on more
> modern distributions which have all but excised HAL. HAL may have been a
> monolith, but it was very easy to get lots of information about hardware
> from it. I'm trying to update Banshee to use udev/udisks for device support,
> but I'm having lots of problems figuring out how to get the info we used to
> get from HAL from udev. HAL had a bunch of media player information, like
> playable formats, supported album art size, etc. How does one get this
> information from udev? Did all of the old HAL fdi information just get
> thrown away, or is it possibly shoved into some corner of udev I just
> haven't shown my flashlight into yet. I'd appreciate any help I can get on
> tackling this problem. If I haven't explained what I'm trying to do well
> enough, please ask me to clarify anything.
> Here are some of the relevant HAL properties we used to use, I'm not sure if
> theyre important but maybe someone has already done this sort of thing and
> this will remind them:
>
> portable_audio_player.cover_art_size
> portable_audio_player.audio_folders
> portable_audio_player.cover_art_file_name
> portable_audio_player.output_formats
> and tons more...

All the player info has moved to:
  http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~teuf/media-player-info/

See here for details of the HAL replacement:
  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Halsectomy

Kay