Re: Proposal for inclusion of gmodconfig in GNOME 2.5

[Cyril Bortolato <borto users sourceforge net>]

Julien Olivier wrote:
> > Per Andrew's advice I'm looking into HAL: http://hal.freedesktop.org/
> > I suppose an application could ask HAL which module corresponds to a
> > certain device, load up gmodconfig for that module and embed e.g.
> > gmodconfig's notebook widget. Implementation-wise this could be done
> > by turning part of gmodconfig into a GNOME component for example.
>
>
> I fully agree. And I'd like to see gmodconfig in GNOME release, but not
> as a module-tweaking UI tool, but as a backend-module used by whether
> HAL or apps directly.

(one month later...) I'm happy to report that I've turned gmodconfig's
core (the notebook widget and the underlying machinery), into a Bonobo
control. The code is in CVS. It'll get packaged as a release after
some more testing. For more infos:
http://gmodconfig.sourceforge.net/embed/index.html

Cyril