[haiku-bugs] [Haiku] #5967: Devices Application improvements
- From: "PieterPanman" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 20:31:51 -0000
#5967: Devices Application improvements
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Reporter: PieterPanman | Owner: nobody
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: - General | Version: R1/alpha2
Keywords: | Blockedby:
Platform: All | Blocking:
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Congratulations on Alpha 2, another important step towards a stable and
complete R1. This ticket is to document my ideas and let you guys know I
do plan to update the Devices application. I'm currently working on my
final thesis, slightly delayed, I will be finished June 9th. Add a holiday
to get over my mental breakdown (just kidding, more like a good hangover
;)), and I'll get back to work on this.
Have a look at the list below, and if you see ideas, feel free to add them
Ideas/TODO's short term:
* Fix up the way the categories are copied from the original pci ids
list. (Suggested on the haiku-development mailing list a while ago, )
* Integrate localization patch, if it hasn't already been done (#5912)
* Fit in ACPI nicely, right now it creates a lot of unknown devices ;)
(new since enabling ACPI)
* Properly support the used driver for a device (means modifying the
kernel, maybe add a syscall or extend an existing one) See
//www.freelists.org/post/haiku-development/device-manager-driver-in-
use-to-userspace
* Try to make the device names a bit shorter somehow.
Long term:
* Separate the pci and other enumeration data into an enumeration service
(also discussed on the mailing list //www.freelists.org/post/haiku-
development/generic-enumeration-API-was-
Haikucommits-r32036-haikutrunksrcpreferencesscreen)
* Implement providing feedback about hardware support and tie it into a
Haiku hardware database, or the Haikuware database. Also make the
possibility of grouping the hardware into one complete 'machine' such as
off the shelf netbooks, with possibly additionally installed components.
* Icons for device types (http://furix.free.fr/)
* Add USB device support, or wait for it to be integrated to the new
Device Manager style.
* From the above submit feedback experience, create functionality to
allow normal users to send all the useful things in one zip. Sort of like
Colin's script. http://dev.osdrawer.net/projects/haiku-wifi/wiki
/How_to_submit_bug-reports (Right now, I think of all devices info, usb
info, syslog, a problem description and some other things). Maybe this
should be a separate application though.
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