On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 10:51:25AM -0500, Jeff Kinz wrote: > > IIRC dbus is used to send messages from the hald to user space. > Translated that means that dbus is a new messaging system used by the > new "hardware abstraction layer daemon" (hald) which were both > implemented as party of a new effort to make hardware devices like USB > better able to do plug and play on Linux.
I don't like how I left this. I think it miss-presents the history/purpose of D-BUS to be a sub-part of project "Utopia". I don't believe that D-Bus was a part of Utopia, just something that project took advantage of. Project "Utopia" may go a long way to solving the usability issues currently preventing Linux from being used by some "Aunt Tilly's". The name is pretty ambitious: this article by Robert Love explains what's going on: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7745 -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. speech recognition software may have been used to create this e-mail _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
