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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE 3.4 BRANCH vs HAL 0.5
From:       Ferdinand Gassauer <gassauer () kde ! org>
Date:       2005-03-29 9:01:05
Message-ID: 200503291101.05594.gassauer () kde ! org
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On Tuesday 29 March 2005 10:27, Jérôme Lodewyck wrote:
> Le Mardi 29 Mars 2005 03:30, James Richard Tyrer a écrit :
> > It appears that these two objects are not defined in the HAL headers
> > with version 0.5.  They are in the headers for version 0.4.7.
> >
> > I really hate it when this happens.
>
> Sure this is not enjoyable... Still, here is the situation :
> - We had to explicitly acknowledge that the DBus API is not stable by a
> #define DBUS_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE. So can't said we haven't been warned...
> - This API change is supposed to be the last (humm... already heard this
> kind of statement !), as DBUS should move towards a 1.x release.
> - The subsequent API change in libhal is quite substantial, and supporting
> both HAL 0.4.x (mainstream) and HAL 0.5 (development) somehow obfuscated
> the media:/ halbackend. I think I will wait for HAL 0.6 and then disable
> support for HAL 0.4.
> - Furthermore, the DBus bindings for Qt 3.x aren't actively maintained.
> Then it wouldn't be wise to extend HAL or DBus support in KDE until KDE 4.0
>
> Jérôme
>
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on SuSE 9.2 I find everything which is mounted automagically in /media

so why not displaying the content of /media in the media io slave for now 
until dbus/hal gets stable?
-- 
cu ferdinand
 
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