info.icon in HAL

[Richard Hughes]

On 02/03/07, Martin Owens <doctormo at gmail.com> wrote:
> hmm, I often have to wonder how much more HAL will attempt to border
> my project before I simply see all the functionality there.
>
> What is HAL for exactly? abstracting functionality of hardware into
> singular interfaces or simply providing more information about
> hardware in general? because dohickey.sourceforge.net is based on hal
> and I'd rather not see the same functionality merged into hal
> directly; it just doesn't make sense.
>
> If you want icon or picture information please work with me on
> information abstraction.

Sure, but I'm not sure where the functional overlap is occurring?
Surely you have code in dohicky to work out the icon, and there's also
similar code in gnome-vfs and I'm guessing KDE also.

By sharing the code and adding the logic to hal-info, we all benefit
and new hardware is supported painlessly and easily just by updating
one package.

Richard.