KDE HAL Device Manager

[Kay Sievers]

On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 02:35:35PM +0100, Joel M wrote:
> Hmm, hal-device-manager seems to be for normal users to me.
> Like the device mangare in Windows XP.

No, it's not. The Windows device manager is a central place to
configure devices and works pretty well for that task.

hal-device-manager is a huge stupid script that draws a tree of
devices and properties, that's it. It would be really cool if we
had something like the Windows Manager, but hal-device-manager
is definitely not the right direction.

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

  ~/work/src/hal> grep joelmandell ChangeLog
  ~/work/src/hal>

Hmm, seems you are not in a position to argue with a developer. :)

Kay


> 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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