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

[Frank Schaefer]

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





--- Comment #6 from Frank Schaefer <fschaefer oss googlemail com>  2011-01-03 23:49:51 ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> 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.

If applications try to work around bugs in upstream libraries instead of fixing
them there, I would call that dirty hacks. Especially when the workarounds
introduce new problems...

> 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.

Did you try to submit a patch ? HAL is still maintained !

> 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. 

Hopefully.

> 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.

Definitely, thanks.

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