.fdi files and HAL

[Sean Middleditch]

On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 02:37, Ikke wrote:
> > I think in the ideal world, the user should plug the camera in, then
> > something pops some kind of "New hardware found" wizard.
> 
> But then you make Hal bound to X and stuff alike... which is something I
> really like now because it's not (I'm mostly a console user). I don't think
> there should be *any* GUI stuff in hal itself. One could work with some
> daemon, and hal sending DBUS messages when an unknown device is connected.

HAL has callouts.  You'd just install a callout that invoked a device
configuration utility.  Adding a device configuration wizard wouldn't
make HAL any more X dependent than does gnome-volume-manager,
hal-device-manager, etc.

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Sean Middleditch <elanthis at awesomeplay.com>
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