tor, 07.04.2005 kl. 19.06 skrev Davide Bolcioni: > John (J5) Palmieri wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 18:42 +0200, Davide Bolcioni wrote: > >> > >>My guess is that I should look at either HAL or D-BUS, but I would like > >>to hear about the pros and cons of each solution: as far as I know, HAL > >>feeds D-BUS but the latter is mainly intended for desktop applications, > >>so in my use case might not even be there. > > > > D-BUS is for use from (right above) the kernel up to the Desktop. You > > can use it for system services also. It is why we have a system bus in > > the first place. > > Well, the D-BUS pages at freedesktop.org seem a bit thin on > documentation. I could start listening on the system bus FIFO, but how > am I supposed to know what to listen for ? > > I tried (as root) on a Fedora Core 3 > > dbus-monitor --system > > but inserting a blank CD resulted in no activity (is this what is > supposed to happen ?), while non-blank media results in significant > activity. I guess I could look at said activity and operate accordingly, > but I was wondering if there was some kind of specification I could code > against that would not change under my feet in the next release. Hmm... Gnome pops up a burner window when i insert a blank media. How does it do that?