Re: [E-devel] places, hal and device kit

[Gustavo S. B. <bar...@pr...>]

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Nick Hughart <me...@me...> wrote:
> On Tue, 5 May 2009 10:32:08 +0200
> Luca De Marini <luc...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> 2009/5/5 Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <bar...@pr...>
>>
>> > http://blog.fubar.dk/?p=105
>> >
>> > short summary: gnome is leading the move away from HAL to DeviceKit.
>> >
>> > Dave, maybe we should take on this and follow they steps? I don't
>> > know about device kit, but it's meant to be a simple thing, at least
>> > compared to the huge beast that is hal.
>> >
>> >
>> If I can just say my opinion, Gnome is a very important DE, many of
>> the apps we use everyday are built in GTK, Firefox included (and
>> openoffice for example), so I believe staying compatible with Gnome
>> is very important for us. I'm not saying this because I lead OpenGEU
>> only. Sure it is important for me, but in general, I think it would
>> be useless for people having a Gnome session installed to have Hal
>> too just because they use E17 and the places module requires it.
>> I say let's follow Gnome's decision on this :)
>> Dave, tell me if you think it differently..
>> Greats,
>
> It's not a matter of conforming, HAL is going away.  It is barely
> supported as is and will be completely obsolete as soon as device-kit
> makes it's way into most distributions/software.  So compatibility has
> nothing to do with it, HAL has been a sinking ship for awhile now.

I agree.

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