> 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.

Can you send in a patch for consideration?  If it looks sane we may very
well include it in our next Qt release (3.5.0).

Thanks!

Tim