On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Nick Hughart <mek...@mekius.net> wrote: > On Tue, 5 May 2009 10:32:08 +0200 > Luca De Marini <luca.darkmas...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 2009/5/5 Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <barbi...@profusion.mobi> >> >> > http://blog.fubar.dk/?p=105 >> > >> > short summary: gnome is leading the move away from HAL to DeviceKit. >> > >> > Dave, maybe we should take on this and follow they steps? I don't >> > know about device kit, but it's meant to be a simple thing, at least >> > compared to the huge beast that is hal. >> > >> > >> If I can just say my opinion, Gnome is a very important DE, many of >> the apps we use everyday are built in GTK, Firefox included (and >> openoffice for example), so I believe staying compatible with Gnome >> is very important for us. I'm not saying this because I lead OpenGEU >> only. Sure it is important for me, but in general, I think it would >> be useless for people having a Gnome session installed to have Hal >> too just because they use E17 and the places module requires it. >> I say let's follow Gnome's decision on this :) >> Dave, tell me if you think it differently.. >> Greats, > > It's not a matter of conforming, HAL is going away. It is barely > supported as is and will be completely obsolete as soon as device-kit > makes it's way into most distributions/software. So compatibility has > nothing to do with it, HAL has been a sinking ship for awhile now.
I agree. -- Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri http://profusion.mobi embedded systems -------------------------------------- MSN: barbi...@gmail.com Skype: gsbarbieri Mobile: +55 (19) 9225-2202 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
