Hi Vijay, Thanks for your proposal. I'm totally agree with the importance of this project. But I have some concerns.
The current trend of UNIX desktop device management is based on HAL, which is a well-designed hardware abstract layer independent of special OS. http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/hal For OpenSolaris, Aterm and other guys has done a lot of job for porting HAL to Solaris. Please see project page. http://opensolaris.org/os/project/tamarack/ The popular way is HAL stores all device info in its database, and desktop applications operate device through HAL. More and more application are doing like this, e.g. gnome-power-manager. Since HAL (Solaris-special backend) has considered a lot of Solaris-special features, such as RBAC, auditing. If we develop a new GUI tool without HAL, many jobs that HAL done have to repeat. I think it's a backward. So I suggest we should think over again for this proposal. Furthermore, HAL community has also made some effort for managing device tool. Before HAL 0.5.9, a GUI tool called hal-device-manager is shipped with HAL, which is able to list and update all devices info on system. But unfortunately it can't add/remove device. So for this reason, a new GUI called gnome-device-manager is created when HAL 0.5.10. This tool is already available on our SFE repository. You can build and try. Currently we're trying to port gnome-device-manager to Solaris. Atem and Strony from HAL team are working for supporting more Solaris devices in HAL, and JDS team are getting involved in GUI development on HAL community. Regards, -Simon On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 07:17 +0530, vijay upreti wrote: > Hi, > > I am submitting a one pager to have project proposal on Device Manager > tool. Aim is to reach to desktop users, who need to add, upgrade or > troubleshoot driver. Currently if you need to have these in place you > have command line options to get this done. The GUI will make it easy to > get this done. > > I appreciate your comments and views on the project one pager. > > Many thanks in advance. > > > Regards > Vijay Upreti > Sun Microsystems India Pvt. Ltd. > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
