Re: [Utopia] Roadmap to Utopia

[Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com>]

David Zeuthen (david fubar dk) said: 
> Yeah, I think a smooth combination of these three along with the
> file-selector and a hal-device-manager like applications is key.
> 
> Another important thing is eye-candy. No, seriously - I think most
> people enjoy eyecandy. To elaborate, I mean having precise icons, like a
> picture of a memory stick or CF card for the device instead of a boring
> grey drive-icon.

When you get to things like USB multi-format readers, this gets
tricky. Unless you're keying off the filesystem labels.

You can also do tricks hoping the LUN is specific for a particular
format. Erp, going into too many technical details.

> > Notification when not in GNOME might just be a console beep which I
> > believe the hotplug stuff does when you plug in a pcmcia card.  It would
> > be quite annoying if I were typing a command to use the device and a
> > message flew up on the console.  
> > 
> 
> What I was thinking was really along this use case: I turn off my PC and
> plug in a PCI-based TV receiver card and subsequently reboot my
> computer. This device needs to be configured with user input like tuner
> model, frequency range etc - stuff the system cannot figure out itself -
> unfortunately..

In what way can't it figure it out?

> Now, when is this done? During the boot process (OS-level e.g. kudzu),
> when a user logs in (GNOME-level) or when an application needs to use
> the device (app-level)? The smoothest experience IMO is when the user
> logs in, e.g. GNOME-level.

True. Especially because those boot-time displays are so ugly. I mean,
who writes an interface like that? :)

Bill