Hardware Notification Daemon?

[Martin Pitt]

Hi Scott,

Scott Robinson [2006-11-01 22:21 -0800]:
> Currently, when a piece of hardware is inserted it may or may not be
> handled by some piece of software. If it isn't handled, the user is left
> uncertain if it is because of some issue in the plug-in process, or if
> the hardware simply is not supported by the operating system as of yet.
> 
> I would like to propose a hardware notification daemon that simply pops
> a notification when a piece of hardware is inserted and successfully
> detected.

Just to make sure that everyone is aware: in Gnome, most types of
removable hardware (storage devices, cameras, audio devices, scanners,
and even more exotic ones like keyboards) are handled by
gnome-volume-manager (which severely outgrew its original purpose
already). Printers aren't yet handled as well as they could be, we'll
discuss that at the UDS [1].

g-v-m's architecture is quite generic, flexible, and nice nowadays, if
there are more classes of hotpluggable hardware we need/want to
support, we should just consider using it (and imagining this blurb
was called 'gnome-hardware-manager' :-) ).

Did you have anything particular in mind?

Martin

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AutomaticPrinterConfiguration

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