Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (485 mails)

[Martin Schlander <martin.schlander@xxxxxxxxx>]

Torsdag den 24. juni 2010 22:43:30 skrev Stefan Bruens:
> On Tuesday 22 June 2010 15:33:07 Will Stephenson wrote:
> > It's happening now, but the backends are still work in progress.  Due to
> > poor communications between u*/DeviceKit developers and the rest of the
> > world and frequent API rewrites, the KDE hardware team decided to wait
> > for those backends to stabilize until writing a Solid backend for them.
> >
> > Will
>
> I think the switch away from HAL should happen as early as possible - HAL
> is no longer maintained, and although the current Solid backend for HAL is
> in a good shape, there are several things which don't work because it is
> not supported by HAL.
>
> Especially support for advanced disk configurations (e.g. LVM) is
> nonexistent, and the trash implementation relies on proper information
> from solid (i.e, currently HAL). Trashing files on separate data
> partitions becomes a nightmare, as the file will be _moved_ to the home
> partition ...

And how about the things that are nonexistant in devicekit? ;-)
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DeviceKit_versus_SolidHAL

There's no reason to rush to jump on every experiment that comes from certain 
places.
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