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Re: Raising the bar on Linux
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Wolfgang Rosenauer
Jun 19, 2007, 3:38:22 AM6/19/07
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Manuel Reimer wrote:
> Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
>> I would expect/hope that most of the requirements will be optional. For
>> example dbus will only work with (fill whatever version here) and the
>> module is available but firefox doesn't fail if the module can't be
>> loaded. The user just has less features available.
>
> Why should a browser need hal or dbus? I don't want a browser to do
> anything if I plug in any hardware!
> Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
>> I would expect/hope that most of the requirements will be optional. For
>> example dbus will only work with (fill whatever version here) and the
>> module is available but firefox doesn't fail if the module can't be
>> loaded. The user just has less features available.
>
> Why should a browser need hal or dbus? I don't want a browser to do
> anything if I plug in any hardware!
For example DBUS is used to check the online status. DBUS makes perfect
sense for desktop interprocess communication but atm I don't know for
what HAL would be usable.
Wolfgang
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