Guys/Girls, (first, sorry for the cross posting)
Further to a long conversation in #ubuntu-development, I've attached a mockup with my thinking so far. My thinking is we *do not* want a "GNOME detected you inserted a mouse" type dialogue, but what I am suggesting is a dialogue that only prompts the user if there is a problem (like firmware request, or external module required) - it should "just work" for everything else. I am hesitant to add this functionality to g-p-m as this is not a "core" power-management role, and I don't want to turn g-p-m into a "jack-of-all-trades" type daemon... but there is only 2 lines of code added to produce the screenshot attached -- all the libhal and libnotify type infrastructure in g-p-m can be already used for this. I think having a whole session daemon that just sits and watches the hal "NewCapability" event (and then does the tiniest amount of checking) is a bit of a waste of memory and cpu, and wouldn't be picked up by distros. I wanted your opinions and ideas before I worked on anything substantial. Thanks, Richard. _______________________________________________ utopia-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/utopia-list
