Re: gnome-pilot-2.0.14pre6 released

[Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com>]

Le mercredi 30 août 2006 à 15:32 +0100, Matt Davey a écrit :
> On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 16:26 +0200, Frederic Crozat wrote:
> > When pilot-link is build with libusb support (as I did on cooker), I
> > think gnome-pilot should try to migrate user configuration
> > from /dev/tty* to usb: automatically, otherwise, people will not
> > understand they need to configure something (which is not obvious at all
> > btw). It might be even better to hide the Device combobox when usb is
> > selected, with libusb support enabled.
> 
> The problem is that unless someone has made the udev changes required
> (blacklist visor, add udev rule, etc) an automatic migration would break
> people's existing config.

Well, we just did that at the system level on Mandriva cooker ;)

> I guess we could use 'usb:' under the hood automatically if we get a usb
> wakeup and detect that there isn't any visor module loaded.
> 
> Either that, or make the auto-migration a configuration option, so that
> packagers can enable it on distributions that package pilot-link with
> libusb support and the udev changes applied.

I'm fine with a configure time option.

-- 
Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com>
Mandriva