> 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