info.icon in HAL
David Zeuthen
david at fubar.dk
Wed Mar 7 10:00:11 PST 2007
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 20:47 +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > So I think info.icon_name is just fine. Thoughts?
>
> It still leaves the question, where "Local Audio" and "Built-in
> Ethernet"-like information could be stored. I think this is a nice and
> needed feature, just like the icons.
> Will we need some string like the icon identifiers for this and merge
> that kind of information to the device?
Definitely - as mentioned on IRC I think some property
info.device_is_inside_chassis
might be useful (better naming suggestions welcome). I think Microsoft
Windows got something like this and they get this data from ACPI tables
but then again, I could be wrong.
David
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