Hide the entries with "Unknown" from "Device Manager"

[Cody Somerville]

The Windows Device Manager doesn't hide unknown devices.

- Cody

On 1/3/07, Andrew Jorgensen <andrew.jorgensen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 1/3/07, Joel Bryan Juliano <joelbryan.juliano at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The Gnome HAL Device manager was showing too much "Unknown" entries,
> which
> > is not very helpful for users.
> > (optimistic users that is :-), pessimist love it)
> >
> > I think it should be better if it should hide the entries with Unknown
> > strings.
> > For example, if Vendor is Unknown, just hide the entire Vendor line.
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> If unknown device entries were hidden I think that would be deceptive,
> but hiding data that's not known (or at least defaulting that behavior
> through a gconf key) sounds like an okay idea.
>
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