Re: [Utopia] is gmv only ment for mountable stuff?

["John (J5) Palmieri" <johnp redhat com>]

On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 08:27 -0400, Joe Shaw wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 09:40 +0000, Kristof Vansant wrote:
> > I see that hald also detects network devices.
> > I was thinking it could be interresting to listen for plugin of a usb
> > network device.
> 
> It might make sense at some point to expand g-v-m (or add another policy
> piece) to do more than just volume management, yeah.  But for now it
> only does volumes.
> 
> > When one is plugged in gnome-system-tools or some other program is
> > called to configure the device and enable it. (I was thinking about
> > g-s-t because it is distro independend)
> 
> Well, g-s-t could listen for those HAL events today and come up whenever
> a new network device is plugged in through the use of HAL callouts.
> That'd also alleviate the need to have another daemon (or increasing
> "bloat" in g-v-m).  I've toyed around with a couple callouts which bring
> up the YaST printer configurator when a USB printer is plugged in on
> SUSE.
> 

I think what we need for the future is something similar to xinet.d for
services.  Basically have a single daemon that can efficiently route
messages to different policy engines without them having to run as
daemons.

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John (J5) Palmieri
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Desktop Group
Red Hat, Inc.
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