On Wednesday, June 14, 2006 10:24 am, Dave Jones wrote: > On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 06:13:12PM +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 05:59:59PM +0200, Phil Knirsch wrote: > > > Now, what i would like to ask of you is to give me some input on > > > what you think might be something where we could do better on > > > laptops. > > > > 1) Make the window manager cope with the loss/gain of an external > > monitor. > > AIUI, the problem here is that we have no way to know that has > happened. We get no 'event' signal when things go away, and a vga > cable is 'stateless'. so there's not even a way to poll the cable to > see if anything is connected. For most video devices, I don't think this is true anymore. It should be possible to send connect/disconnect events via DBUS to HAL for most hardware given proper driver support. I've heard that for some devices, polling may be required, but that shouldn't be much of a problem either since HAL already has polling support for CDROMs and such. That said, I'm not sure if anyone is actively coding this stuff up... Jesse -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
