[Utopia] Gnome Volume Mgr ==> Gnome Hardware Mgr ??

["Johnson, Charles F" <charles f johnson intel com>]

Robert,

Sorry for this email out of the blue.  I saw your blog entry about with
the addition of printer and IPOD support, etc into gnome-volume-mgr,
that maybe it should renamef to the Gnome Hardware Manager.  I'd like to
discuss this a little more.  

Here at Intel, we've been looking at Linux client device management
support and specifically with the X server.  (hotplug input devices,
auto-detection of support for external displays, etc.)

Anyway I read your Utopia article in Linux Journal and after reading
your blog I definitely think the idea of expanding the scope of the
volume manager to be hardware manager makes a lot of sense.  It already
is integrated into the Linux hotplug system along with HAL & DBUS.   Has
there been more thoughts along these lines ??

I'm now wondering if any changes to the X server really should be done
within the context of Gnome Volume Mgr instead of something indpendent.
So I guess my real question here is if you think this is the current
trend in the community ??  (I also CC'd this to the Utopia list.)


Charles Johnson
Channel Software Operation
Intel Corporation
charles f johnson intel com
503-712-5181