2 Sep
2012
2 Sep
'12
9:04 p.m.
Retaining the same icon label across different physical ports now works! :-)
Okay, don't show them in the GUI dialog. How about migrating the entire mediamanagerrc
chunk for each device? Those four options would remain dormant under TDEHW, but would be
there should TDEHW support them.
Observation (a different reason to copy the whole mediamanagerrc chunk for each device):
TDEHW does not grep/inherit HAL settings in mediamanagerrc, requiring users to reconfigure
each device that is different from the defaults. That is, each device under TDEHW defaults
to the defaults. Users have to uncheck the "Use defaults" check box and
reconfigure the device. Not to mention having to reconfigure the icon label. Paper cut
nuisance, especially when we want TDEHW to be as seamless as possible --- the basic idea
of "never breaking external interfaces." As both schemes use UUID I'm hoping
this chunk copying should be straightforward. :-)
Aargh. :-) Rebuild again!
Okay. You have that particular set of FIXME messages in your queue. :-)
More information:
CD/DVDs: Not sure how this works, but the following happens when I insert a disk under
both HAL and TDEHW:
* An icon appears on the desktop. The icon label is the name of the disk label, such as
"Slackware64-current DVD."
* A dialog appears asking me what to do.
Then this happens under HAL:
* The disk mounts to a mount point the same as the disk label, such as
"/media/Slackware64-current DVD" (Pretty!)
Under TDEHW:
* The disk mounts to the mount point of "/media/sr0" (Functional but not
pretty)
Is there a way to get TDEHW to use a mount point like under HAL? I do not have anything in
mediamanagerrc for optical disks. I don't know how TDE/HAL creates/uses a mount point
that matches the disk label. I'm guessing something in the halbackend code that can be
copied/pasted into the tdehwbackend code? :-)
* Compact flash disk icon: USB device rather than sd_mmc device: I'll test with the
latest patches.
Darrell
How about
having TDEHW migrate those settings to the new mediamanagerrc
groups and gray/ghost the options in the dialog? That way users would see
that the settings were migrated but not supported under TDEHW.
This is not easy due to the underlying architecture of the
media manager system. Besides this, it would be confusing to most
users to see greyed-out options for settings that the underlying code
cannot support at this time.
TQSocketNotifier: Invalid socket specified
TQSocketNotifier: Internal error
I just pushed two new commits to tdelibs and tdebase; they
should resolve the warnings printed above, as well as restore proper
removable media device icons. I suspect the
FIXME messages are on the TDEHW to-do list?
Yes. If anyone ever sees these messages, please send
them to this mailing list. They indicate that TDEHWLib did not recognize
one or more devices on your system, and they also include enough information to
fix detection.