20 Jun
2010
20 Jun
'10
5:07 p.m.
On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 19:02:28 +0200, Andreas Radke <a.radke@arcor.de> wrote:
hal is not necessary anymore for Xorg but other apps are still using it, e.g. Xfce's Thunar for storage device hotplugging.
Not sure how far the replacements are in other parts.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/HalRemoval for more.
For KDE hal is still needed (storage devices, power management etc.) This might change with KDE 4.6 next year. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre