[kde-freebsd] Re: icon for optical disk

Andriy Gapon avg at freebsd.org
Thu Mar 10 14:25:52 CET 2011


on 10/03/2011 13:32 Alberto Villa said the following:
> On Thursday 10 March 2011 08:07:41 Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> The function expects that for optical disks "info.category" would be
>> "volume" and "info.capabilities" would contain "volume.disc".
>> But our hal gives "volume.disc" value in the info.category property as I
>> can see with lshal.  And thus the match fails and an empty icon name is
>> returned from the function.
>> I've just double-checked with OpenSUSE installation that I have and 
> their
>> hal supplies the values that the solid code expects.
> 
> i'm not sure if that is supposed to be correct. this is from doc/spec/hal-
> spec-properties.xml:
> 
> <entry>
>   <literal>info.category</literal> (string)
> </entry>
> <entry>example: storage.cdrom</entry>
> <entry>No</entry>
> <entry>The prominent capability describing what the device is</entry>
> 
> googling for info.category examples, though, reveals only simple words 
> for it on linux (volume, storage...). a linuxism, maybe?
> 
> i'll try to get our hal behave as in linux, and we'll see

Well, an example is not a definitive specification.
And I thought that the hal was one big linuxism :-)

Anyway, thanks a lot for the patch, I will test it.

-- 
Andriy Gapon


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