KDE HAL Device Manager

[Joel M]

Hmm, hal-device-manager seems to be for normal users to me.
Like the device mangare in Windows XP.

I don't really apply to tour argument, "quick hack" for developers.

//Joel

On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 12:30 +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> 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
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