Re: passive translator timeout

[Marco Gerards]

Michael Banck <mbanck@gmx.net> writes:

> On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 11:57:14AM +0000, Marco Gerards wrote:
>> Patrick Strasser <patrick.strasser@tugraz.at> writes:
>> > Or let the translator register with some notification service provided
>> > by the CDROM driver. Other things might also want to register, like
>> > some kind of automounter or HW-detection. Or a tool that shows CDROM
>> > status (open/closed, stopped/spinning, disk/no disk, translator
>> > set...).
>> 
>> All these kind of things should be taken care of in fabrica when it is
>> developed.  I think it should be possible to register a notification
>> with an opened device that should notify the opener when the
>> underlying medium (whatever it is) is not available anymore.
>
> Does anybody know whether fabrica takes into account freedesktop.org's
> HAL and d-bus specs? If I am not mistaken, the above quotation is within
> their scope.

I think that is not the case, but it is certainly important for
mainstream acceptance IMHO.

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Marco