From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tim Jansen Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 19:01:37 +0000 Subject: Re: Network protocol for linux-hotplug. Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Monday 08 October 2001 02:05, you wrote: > It had occurred to me that it might be a good idea to make things such > that unsatisfied hotplug requests are forwarded through the network to > certain database servers. > Of course, the idea behind all this is the principal idea behind > hot-plugging: To have the user do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to have his/her > hardware devices working besides plugging them in. In general it would be a good idea IMHO to have hooks for other applications in the hotplug scripts. My problem with the current solution is that it is not possible to interact with the user. For example if a KDE user plugs in a new mass storage device he should be asked in which directory the device should be mounted, and then possibly konqueror should be opened with the new directory. And Gnome people probably want something similar for Nautilus. So far the hotplug system only works with pre-configured devices. > Of course, the idea behind all this is the principal idea behind > hot-plugging: To have the user do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to have his/her > hardware devices working besides plugging them in. In some cases this is a good idea, but often the user also needs applications to use the device. For example if you install a scanner it would be nice to propose some applications for configuring the device. bye.. _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel