KDE HAL Device Manager

[Kay Sievers]

On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 04:35:06PM +0200, S.Çağlar Onur wrote:
> Cumartesi 7 Ocak 2006 13:30 tarihinde, Kay Sievers şunları yazmıştı: 
> > 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.
> 
> While its written in PyQt/KDE maybe author wants to convert this into a kcm 
> shell (PyKDEeXtension) and releases as a kinfocenter alternate?

I don't know about that infrastructure, but yes, it sounds like a much
better place to do such a thing, cause you want to store persistent
properties for devices and edit other settings the desktop environment
is interested in.
And you also want to show virtual devices with the same interface, which
are not handled by HAL.

Kay