On Tuesday 28 August 2012 00:29:10 Timothy Pearson wrote:
> > On Monday 27 August 2012 23:58:52 Darrell Anderson wrote:
> >> > I cannot understate the amount of functionality that was
> >> > lost when HAL was abandoned.  It will take a long time to rebuild
> >> > everything to the same level of functionality that once was available
> >> > through HAL.
> >>
> >> Doesn't matter what was lost. :-) TDE is DEAD without automounting. I
> >> don't
> >> envision any user tolerating that loss of functionality. "Long time"
> >> won't
> >> cut the cheese with most users --- they'll move on.
> >>
> >> Did the OpenSuse KDE3 people resolve this problem?
> >
> > I think OpenSuse use my udisks2 backend.
>
> Ah, OK.  Was this implemented in a manner that could be included into TDE
> as an alternate backend?

Of course, can be activated on compile time or in runtime. There is the 
initial commit: 
https://github.com/serghei/kde3-kdebase/commit/27cc062c6b172fd6e93addb510269b360cb7eb8d

Anyway, it still need some improvements (i.e. better integration with polkit, 
support for cameras, etc). My polkit agent is almost ready, but it will need 
Qt3 patched to support glib mainloop (which was developed few years ago by 
Norbert Frese).

http://web.archive.org/web/20070524141039/http://www.scheinwelt.at/~norbertf/common_main_loop/

At this moment I run my KDE3 on top of patched Qt, without any problem.


> Thanks!
>
> Tim

-- 
Serghei