[kopete-bugs] [Bug 167332] Webcam Device List Not Accessable

[Lamarque V. Souza]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167332





--- Comment #5 from Lamarque V. Souza <lamarque gmail com>  2011-01-03 23:27:30 ---
Actually it is not a hack, that is the way hald works. That is the only way to
add hardware information not provided by the hardware itself to hald and
consequently to solid and then to Kopete. The package hal-info I mentioned
contains .fdi files to several hardware. Even gphoto used to have its own .fdi
file (/usr/share/hal/fdi/information/20thirdparty/10-camera-libgphoto2.fdi) to
add info about all cameras it supports. Since hald has been deprecated for
years I think no new .fdi file has been added to hal-info, so this problem.

In KDE SC 4.6 we have a new udev backend that should provide that information,
hopefully we will not need hald and those .fdi files anymore. I have not tested
the Solid's udev backend yet, so I cannot say if it really solves this problem.
Sure essentially this is a hald/udev problem, not KDE's. Nevertheless the
information in this bug entry is usefull for other users understand what is
happening.

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