ConsoleKit 0.2.4

Michael Biebl mbiebl at gmail.com
Thu Jan 24 12:01:14 PST 2008


2008/1/24, Matthias Clasen <matthias.clasen at gmail.com>:
> On Jan 24, 2008 12:01 PM, Michael Biebl <mbiebl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > About the layer boundaries:
> > +--------------+
> > |    HAL       |
> > +-----------+  |
> > | PolicyKit |  |
> > +-----------+--+
> > | ConsoleKit   |
> > +--------------+
>
> [ lots of verbiage skipped ]
>

Thanks for such a knowledgeable answer.

> A nice picture but its just not true. As I said earlier, you can
> easily come up with cases
> where CK needs information that is managed by hal, e.g. to find out
> about available seats
> etc. Or do you propose that CK should start scanning the various
> busses for graphics
> adapters itself ?

No, there should be a new component sitting on top of CK and HAL.
Simple, isn't it.

> This picture is much closer to the truth:

No, it isn't.

Cheers,
Michael
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