Introduction + [PATCH] CD/DVD advanced detection

[David Zeuthen]

On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 13:25 +0200, Kevin Ottens wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I'm the current maintainer of the media ioslave in KDE, it has been introduced 
> during KDE 3.4 development, and it's the first part having HAL support 
> (thanks to the help of Jérôme Lodewyck) and it's similar to the Gnome volume 
> manager on the feature front. For KDE 3.5 we're just trying to improve the 
> current HAL support, but I have more plans for KDE 4.
> 
> I don't want to limit the support only to storage, and I'll surely introduce 
> HAL support directly in kdelibs. Because of this, I'll contribute to HAL 
> more, until now I've been quiet but it'll surely change.

Yay, sounds good!

> 
> As a proof of my previous claim, you'll find a patch attached to this 
> mail. ;-)
> 
> I adapted some code used in KDE to guess a CD/DVD content. It worked nicely 
> when used to post-process what HAL reports, but it'll surely better to have 
> it in HAL directly. It's not heavily modified, so it should be stable I 
> guess, I tested it here against this morning CVS and it works nicely.
> 
> When a data CD/DVD is inserted, it simply access the table of contents and 
> tries to find a special directory indicating if the medium if a VCD, SVCD or 
> Video DVD. This way, no mounting is needed and then it is not too intrusive.

This is pretty nice. Thanks a lot!

> I greatly hope it can make its way to your CVS repository.

Yup, I'm looking at Danny's tweaked version.

Cheers,
David