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

[Robert Love <rml novell com>]

On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 11:17 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 10:55 -0400, Robert Love wrote:
> > I think that the change to gnome-hardware-manager is an issue of naming
> > only, because we /already/ made the change technically: g-v-m now
> > manages mice, keyboards, scanners, printers, and iPods, in addition to
> > media and removable drives.
> 
> This makes so much sense to me. Btw, this weekend at the GNOME Summit I
> was talking to Kevin Otte of KDE Volume Manager fame about working on a
> spec for the "Applications instead commands" thing mentioned here
> 
>  http://blog.fubar.dk/?p=29
> 
> It would be awesome to get rid of the commandline bits from g-v-m.

Seriously.  We should have done this a year ago.

Add a MIME type-like handler for "actions" such as "play music" and off
we go.

> So instead of having 5000 lines of gnome-power-manager source code, why
> not simply add a 500 line patch to gnome-hardware-manager that does
> exactly this and no more?

Nod.

	Robert Love