Vijay Upreti wrote: > Hi Simon, > > Thanks for your response. > > The requirement I am putting forward need not have HAL database > association. As mentioned that most of the H/W device information can > be easily obtained using existing commands or teaking little bit more > with system to get the output as needed. > > I haven't yet tried gnome base device manager tool, but if the work is > exactly same as mentioned in the requirement then of course its going > to be a duplicated effort. > > Just to understand the roadmap for gnome-device-manager, is that > planned to be incorporated in the future Navada builds? or is it going > to be just an extra tool to play with? I am only aiming to have a > Navada based feature which can reach to larger user community due to > its simplicity and effectiveness. Yes. Putting g-d-m into Nevada is our desire too. Strony and me did some investigation and made a simple prototype several month ago. Because we haven't enough resource, it was going slowly now. Anyway Strony is working hard for HAL improvement. Once Solaris HAL and gnome-device-manager GUI mature further, this tool is easily integrated. My idea is we should invest more resource to develop gnome-device-manager on HAL community and then port to Solaris. It's a good chance for you to participate in their archeticure design.
Thanks, -Simon > > > Do you have any demo for the gnome-device-manager? > > Vijay > simon.zheng at sun.com wrote: >> 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 >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> desktop-discuss mailing list >> desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >
