General questions about HAL

[Dik Takken]

On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, David Zeuthen wrote:

> No, no, no, this is just plain wrong. The thinking behind HAL is to let
> daemons in the desktop session intercept events from HAL using the
> system message bus (e.g. D-BUS). I know that

Yes, yes, yes, I know. :) But I'm not a developer, just a user. I have no 
idea how to catch DBUS events, but I do know how to write BASH scripts...

> I thought KDE 3.5 and later already included functionality similar to
> GNOME Volume Manager? Ie. it should work out of the box...

Yes, it does. But it isn't fully customizable yet, AFAIK.

Dik