On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 12:28 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > David Zeuthen (david@xxxxxxxx) said: > > > That's a cheat, though - the introduction is removing functionality from > > > the OS. > > > > Strong disagreement. > > Prior releases automatically mounted filesystems in all situations; No, we just provided 1) an /etc/fstab entry; and 2) created/maintained a directory in /media. > now they are only mounted in the desktop. There are no big changes for desktop users. > > [davidz@daxter ~]$ dbus-send --system --dest=org.freedesktop.Hal --print-reply /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_43F1_517C org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.Unmount array:string: > > method return sender=:1.2 -> dest=:1.62 > > uint32 0 > > [davidz@daxter ~]$ dbus-send --system --dest=org.freedesktop.Hal --print-reply /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_43F1_517C org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.Mount string: string: array:string: > > method return sender=:1.2 -> dest=:1.65 > > uint32 0 > > This isn't exactly common use currently, though - I suspect > more people understand basic perl line noise than this. :) > > Is there a way to easily query a d-bus object (from the command > line, or even python -c '...') for the supported methods? No, not yet, sorry. HAL was written before the introspection format in D-BUS settled... so HAL currently don't support introspection... I want to add this when D-BUS goes 1.0 though... > > > This is all documented in the release notes, right? > > > > If you think it's necessary.. feel free to add it. > > I really think we could use one. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=182639 David -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
