Re: [Gtkpod-devel] libgpod udev/hal integration

[Patryk Z. <pa...@pl...>]

On 4/28/07, Christophe Fergeau <te...@gn...> wrote:
> For example, a libgpod function looking like itdb_hal_device_supported
> (HalSomething *) might be more elegant.

This won't solve a problem of which plugin to load in the first place
(not all apps are iPod-centric).

> In short, I'm totally unconvinced that installing a hal device file for that
> purpose is a good idea. Having the hal tree populated with the iPod model name,
> the iPod capabilities, ... would be really nice otoh. But then, libipoddevice
> might be a more appropriate place than libgpod to add that since it already have
> code to gather all this stuff.

I'd rather see things like model and color pushed upstream to the
default HAL rulesets. This way KDE and GNOME could display proper
icons for the device rather than a generic "music player" icon.

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Patryk Zawadzki
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