Re: [Opensync-users] Compatibility with Solid?

[Koen K. <ko...@do...>]

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Armin Bauer schreef:
> Hi Hans,
> 
> Hans Bakker wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> today I read the article about OpenSync on kde.org (in the Dot) and
>> Tobias mentioned that he'd like to have a hardware detection
>> mechanism. It sounded to me as if you wanted to write it yourself.
>> Please, don't forget that the people of Solid (solid.kde.org) are
>> doing fantastic work by making a hardware detection library, and that
>> you maybe could use it instead of writing such code yourself.
> 
> I dont know what solid can do exactly. So ill just explain what opensync
> would need:
> 
> OpenSync would need to monitor a variety of connection types like usb,
> bluetooth, serial (if possible), irda and so on. if opensync detects a
> device it would try to detect what type of device it sees exactly
> (manufacturer, model, version, identifier). based on this information it
> would lookup the device in a database to see what options are needed to
> make the device work.
> 
> Do you know if solid would be capable of helping with this task? Another
> issue: OpenSync is independent from desktops and X11. so it cannot use
> anything that depends on such things.

Sounds like you'd want HAL[1] or udev (linux only) integration.

regards,

Koen

[1] http://hal.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fhal


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