Hardware plug-in feedback in the free desktop
By Florian Boucault on Sunday 26 August 2007, 22:40 - Free software - Permalink
At the moment, GNOME does not give any feedback to the user when a device gets plugged in. If the hardware is recognised and a driver for it found, then a piece of software might be executed if previously defined: that's it and not yet user friendly.
Here comes hardware-feedback, a little Python experiment relying on HAL that displays appropriate feedback and potentially useful hints when a device is detected.
Here is the result:
A notification appears immediately when a device is plugged.
Mouse detected!
Webcam detected: the Tango project needs an icon for that, anyone?
For those who would like to start hacking, here is the bazaar branch:
bzr co
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~fboucault/hardware-feedback/trunk/
A number of improvements are possible:
- helping the user to find a solution when no suitable driver is available on his/her computer
- providing the user with software handling the device well (think Cheese for a webcam)
- rewrite and integration in gnome-volume-manager
- audio feedback in addition to the visual one
ps: thank you Danny Kukawka, David Zeuthen, Richard Hughes, Havoc Pennington and the many others for this very nifty HAL.
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