Re: [Tracker] Migrating tracker from HAL to DeviceKit

[Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com>]

Jamie McCracken wrote:
> Hi richard,

Hi Richard, Jamie,

> ïTracker does indeed use HAL for power management and for detecting
> removable storage
>
> As HAL support is optional (not all platforms have HAL like solaris) it
> would probably make sense to switch to a raw dbus solution

Yea, I don't see why we can't do this, DBus is used quite a lot in
Tracker, adding another service just makes power/disk management a
runtime component rather than a build time AND runtime component.

> the only sang at this stage is which distro's use Device kit? I dont
> believe jaunty uses it?

Well, 0.6.92 which we just released is being migrated into Jaunty this
week I believe. I doubt we will get any more versions in. Possibly some
patches will be fed back and maybe an update later on but I think this
should really go into the vstore branch and I don't see it being used
until the next release from Ubuntu either.

> Ergo at this point in time, it might be best to see if device-kit is
> activated on dbus and use it if its there else fallback to HAL.

Totally agree and from the Maemo point of view (as Ivan said) this is a
good solution until DeviceKit is there.

> In the long run we can then remove HAL support
>
> martyn, do you agree?

Yep!

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Regards,
Martyn