Some points/issues to discuss about the desktop

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 01:41:18AM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 17:36 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 
> > I've tested kudzu, and I don't find it very friendly.  It prompts the user
> > about all sorts of hardware that they don't need to know about (USB hubs,
> > even devices it calls "unknown").  We should do something in this area, but
> > I don't think kudzu would be a good base for it.  Rather, a modern
> > equivalent would interface with hal, which should greatly improve its
> > usability.
> > 
> Hopefully hotplug, hal and NetworkManager will provide this candy (as I
> understand it) ...

Only for network interfaces, no?  In utopia, we might want to do something
about a hard drive (let the user format it and decide where to mount it),
PDAs (configure a sync application), cameras (decide what to launch when it
is connected), etc.  There would seem to be a need for something more
generic.

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 - mdz