Plans for dbus/hal/automounter

[Matthew Burgess]

Hi guys,

I've finally gotten a USB flash-disk based Digital Audio Player.  This 
is the kind of thing that an automounter should really be able to 
handle, so that things are handled in as much of a plug and play manner 
as possible.  With that in mind, and remembering that dbus and hal have 
been mentioned before, are there any timescales or even tentative plans 
for them to be included?  I've seen the comments in bug 1321, to which 
I'd just add that both dbus and hal have slowed down a lot in their API 
churn recently.


In addition to this, 'pmount' can hook into HAL and allow non-privileged 
users to automatically mount hotpluggable devices, which is exactly what 
I need in my current situation.


As I'll have to make notes regarding all of this for my own use, I'm 
wondering what format they should be in: 1) casual notes 2) hint-style 
material 3) Full blown DocBook XML for review by BLFS devs


Thoughts and comments appreciated.

Regards,

Matt.
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Re: Plans for dbus/hal/automounter

[Randy McMurchy]

Matthew Burgess wrote these words on 09/13/05 13:41 CST:

> I've finally gotten a USB flash-disk based Digital Audio Player.  This 
> is the kind of thing that an automounter should really be able to 
> handle, so that things are handled in as much of a plug and play manner 
> as possible.  With that in mind, and remembering that dbus and hal have 
> been mentioned before, are there any timescales or even tentative plans 
> for them to be included?

As soon as I finish with GNOME, I will add D-BUS and HAL to the book.
GNOME natively supports HAL version >0.50 now, and it appears to work
well. I've almost got GNOME installed (2.12) and will be updating the
book soon. Unfortunately, KDE still want the old HAL API and probably
won't work with HAL version >-0.50. I installed KDE before D-BUS and
HAL, so I can't say for sure, but I did look at the configure script,
and I don't think the newer HAL will work with KDE.

I have what I think are good installation methods, and bootscripts
already created for both D-BUS and HAL. If you want to send notes,
that would be great, don't go to a lot of trouble, just what you
think are gotchas. For example, if you start the D-BUS daemon, and
then install HAL and try to fire up the HAL daemon, you will not
get anywhere. You must shut down the D-BUS daemon after HAL is
installed, then restart D-BUS and then start the HAL daemon.

I have these projects on the very near (within a week) horizon.

1. Get David to update GTK+-2, Glib-2, ATK and Pango.
2. Add cairo to the book.
3. Add D-BUS to the book.
4. Add HAL to the book.
5. Update GNOME to 2.12.0.

Does this give you a good idea of my plans, Matt?

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Re: Plans for dbus/hal/automounter

[Matthew Burgess]

Randy McMurchy wrote:


Does this give you a good idea of my plans, Matt?


Thanks Randy, that's great!  I'll now proceed with my usual care-free 
method of repeatedly installing things until they work, rather than 
painstakingly writing everything down :)  I'll keep an eye out for any 
particularly obnoxious gotchas though, and forward them on once I'm done.


Regards,

Matt.
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