On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 16:59, Matthew E. Lauterbach wrote: > On Monday, December 06, 2004 11:42 AM, Simarjeet Sahni wrote: > >I agree, the device should be unavailabe if it has been removed, > >however, its related user configured properties should not. > > What if it is actually gone, never to return? > How can we tell the difference? Well it is not so bad to hold user configuration in gconf. That is what we do for printers that can't be autodetected. Even if they never plug the printer in again all it does it take up a small amount of disk space. -- J5
