On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 10:30 -0700, Artem Kachitchkine wrote: > > I am not familiar about the other device manager project. I was told > > that both the structure and the GUI are different. If this is the case > > I'd say that it won't hurt to have both these projects on opensolaris. > > I think it is completely unacceptable. Duplication is bad both in terms > of system architecture and human resources. > > It is also strange to see "HAL" in the project name and project > proposal. I believe the project should focus on providing a GUI for > device management.
How about just "Device Manager"? Since gnome-device-manager heavily depends on HAL, especially new interfaces. Would be better if project name can show up HAL enhancement work. > How that could be achieved is a subject of further > research as part of the OpenSolaris project. Whether it is based on > gnome-device-manager or something else, does it use HAL or not, does it > use RBAC or PolicyKit, etc - these are parts of the solution. > > -Artem > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
