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Xfce, udev, and HAL

Xfce, udev, and HAL

Posted Mar 2, 2011 19:43 UTC (Wed) by mezcalero (subscriber, #45103)
In reply to: Xfce, udev, and HAL by nix
Parent article: Choosing between portability and innovation

I am pretty sure that's not what davidz had in mind when he wrote udisks...


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Xfce, udev, and HAL

Posted Mar 2, 2011 22:26 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

I was thinking of the original 'HAL is deprecated, use udisks/u*' email, but I didn't actually look it up so I could very well be wrong.

Xfce, udev, and HAL

Posted Mar 4, 2011 8:38 UTC (Fri) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183) [Link]

> I am pretty sure that's not what davidz had in mind when he wrote udisks...

From a quick look at the API though it does look reasonably suitable for implementations on other platforms, even if that wasn't the idea. With a big exception for the LVM stuff.

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