> I recently pushed a new (alpha quality) backend for the
> media:/ kioslave which uses udev/pmount and therefore does not rely on
> HAL.  I encourage developers here to try it out!

Tim, FYI:

While rebuilding tdebase for another reason, I forgot to set -DWITH_TDEHWLIB=OFF. The build failed with this:

In file included from /dev/shm/tdebase/kioslave/media/mediamanager/tdehardwarebackend.cpp:19:
/dev/shm/tdebase/kioslave/media/mediamanager/tdehardwarebackend.h:37:32: error: tdehardwaredevices.h: No such file or directory
In file included from /dev/shm/tdebase/kioslave/media/mediamanager/tdehardwarebackend.cpp:19:
/dev/shm/tdebase/kioslave/media/mediamanager/tdehardwarebackend.h:85: error: 'TDEStorageDevice' has not been declared
/dev/shm/tdebase/kioslave/media/mediamanager/tdehardwarebackend.h:92: error: 'TDEStorageDevice' has not been declared
/dev/shm/tdebase/kioslave/media/mediamanager/tdehardwarebackend.h:99: error: 'TDEStorageDevice' has not been declared
/dev/shm/tdebase/kioslave/media/mediamanager/tdehardwarebackend.h:102: error: 'TDEGenericDevice' has not been declared
/dev/shm/tdebase/kioslave/media/mediamanager/tdehardwarebackend.h:103: error: 'TDEGenericDevice' has not been declared
/dev/shm/tdebase/kioslave/media/mediamanager/tdehardwarebackend.h:104: error: 'TDEGenericDevice' has not been declared
/dev/shm/tdebase/kioslave/media/mediamanager/tdehardwarebackend.h:119: error: 'TDEStorageDevice' has not been declared
/dev/shm/tdebase/kioslave/media/mediamanager/tdehardwarebackend.cpp: In constructor 'TDEBackend::TDEBackend(MediaList&, TQObject*)':
/dev/shm/tdebase/kioslave/media/mediamanager/tdehardwarebackend.cpp:55: error: 'TDEHardwareDevices' was not declared in this scope
/dev/shm/tdebase/kioslave/media/mediamanager/tdehardwarebackend.cpp:55: error: 'hwdevices' was not declared in this scope
/dev/shm/tdebase/kioslave/media/mediamanager/tdehardwarebackend.cpp:55: error: 'hardwareDevices' is not a member of 'KGlobal'
/dev/shm/tdebase/kioslave/media/mediamanager/tdehardwarebackend.cpp: In destructor 'virtual TDEBackend::~TDEBackend()':
/dev/shm/tdebase/kioslave/media/mediamanager/tdehardwarebackend.cpp:70: error: 'TDEHardwareDevices' was not declared in this scope
/dev/shm/tdebase/kioslave/media/mediamanager/tdehardwarebackend.cpp:70: error: 'hwdevices' was not declared in this scope
/dev/shm/tdebase/kioslave/media/mediamanager/tdehardwarebackend.cpp:70: error: 'hardwareDevices' is not a member of 'KGlobal'
/dev/shm/tdebase/kioslave/media/mediamanager/tdehardwarebackend.cpp:71: error: 'TDEGenericHardwareList' was not declared in this scope
/dev/shm/tdebase/kioslave/media/mediamanager/tdehardwarebackend.cpp:71: error: expected ';' before 'hwlist'
/dev/shm/tdebase/kioslave/media/mediamanager/tdehardwarebackend.cpp:72: error: 'TDEGenericDevice' was not declared in this scope
/dev/shm/tdebase/kioslave/media/mediamanager/tdehardwarebackend.cpp:72: error: 'hwdevice' was not declared in this scope
/dev/shm/tdebase/kioslave/media/mediamanager/tdehardwarebackend.cpp:73: error: 'hwlist' was not declared in this scope
/dev/shm/tdebase/kioslave/media/mediamanager/tdehardwarebackend.cpp:74: error: 'TDEGenericDeviceType' has not been declared
/dev/shm/tdebase/kioslave/media/mediamanager/tdehardwarebackend.cpp:75: error: 'TDEStorageDevice' was not declared in this scope
/dev/shm/tdebase/kioslave/media/mediamanager/tdehardwarebackend.cpp:75: error: 'sdevice' was not declared in this scope
/dev/shm/tdebase/kioslave/media/mediamanager/tdehardwarebackend.cpp:75: error: expected type-specifier before 'TDEStorageDevice'
/dev/shm/tdebase/kioslave/media/mediamanager/tdehardwarebackend.cpp:75: error: expected '>' before 'TDEStorageDevice'
/dev/shm/tdebase/kioslave/media/mediamanager/tdehardwarebackend.cpp:75: error: expected '(' before 'TDEStorageDevice'
/dev/shm/tdebase/kioslave/media/mediamanager/tdehardwarebackend.cpp:75: error: expected primary-expression before '>' token
/dev/shm/tdebase/kioslave/media/mediamanager/tdehardwarebackend.cpp:75: error: expected ')' before ';' token
/dev/shm/tdebase/kioslave/media/mediamanager/tdehardwarebackend.cpp: At global scope:
/dev/shm/tdebase/kioslave/media/mediamanager/tdehardwarebackend.cpp:81: error: variable or field 'AddDeviceHandler' declared void
/dev/shm/tdebase/kioslave/media/mediamanager/tdehardwarebackend.cpp:81: error: 'TDEGenericDevice' was not declared in this scope
/dev/shm/tdebase/kioslave/media/mediamanager/tdehardwarebackend.cpp:81: error: 'device' was not declared in this scope
make[2]: *** [kioslave/media/mediamanager/CMakeFiles/kded_mediamanager-module.dir/tdehardwarebackend.cpp.o] Error 1

Darrell