Kudzu and automatic detection

John (J5) Palmieri johnp at redhat.com
Mon Dec 6 22:20:59 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 16:59, Matthew E. Lauterbach wrote:
> On Monday, December 06, 2004 11:42 AM, Simarjeet Sahni wrote:
> >I agree, the device should be unavailabe if it has been removed,
> >however, its related user configured properties should not.
> 
> What if it is actually gone, never to return?  
> How can we tell the difference?

Well it is not so bad to hold user configuration in gconf.  That is what
we do for printers that can't be autodetected.  Even if they never plug
the printer in again all it does it take up a small amount of disk
space.

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J5




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