KDE HAL Device Manager

[Joel M]

Well you own3d me there :=)

My take was that it's beautiful to have an gui for normal users.

//Joel

On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 17:05 +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> 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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