Re: [Utopia] gnome-mount 0.3 is out



On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 08:18:04AM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> 
> On Jan 12, 2006, at 6:25 AM, Kay Sievers wrote:
> >(You probably ask, cause Ubuntu has the weird idea of running HAL
> >unprivileged. Be prepared, gnome-mount is only the first user that
> >requires a "normal" HAL setup, more will follow for other kind of
> >operations, so you guys may need to reconsider this decision, if
> >you want to be able to follow upstream development.)''
> 
> This might change sooner that later. I was talking to Matthew Garrett
> on IRC some days ago about him finishing the patch that makes
> hald run unprivileged but still exec helpers (addons, callouts, method
> invocations) from a helper process still running as root (using D-BUS
> in point to point mode between the two).  The reason, IIRC, was the
> desire to use the power management methods that HAL now offers.

What do you think will read volume labels an similar stuff from new
devices then?

Kay



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