Some points/issues to discuss about the desktop

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Matt Zimmerman">

> In utopia, we might want to do something about a hard drive (let the user
> format it and decide where to mount it)

g-v-m: If it can't grok the media, it should pop up a formatting utility
(rather like gfloppy, but generalised and not le-suck).

> PDAs (configure a sync application), cameras (decide what to launch when it
> is connected), etc.

multisync: With a nicer GUI and HAL integration, multisync could eat this up
very nicely.

> There would seem to be a need for something more generic.

That's hal! It's the meat that makes the policy engine sandwich great! :-)

- Jeff

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