Fit and Finish, round three: peripherals

[Bastien Nocera]

On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 15:52 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 13:42 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 13:34 -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote:
> > > On 08/07/2009 12:53 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > > > a camera, a phone, a usb stick, or whatever gizmos you
> > > > have at home... 
> > > 
> > > Real plastic and metal plugs only, or bluetooth connections as well?
> > 
> > Bluetooth is definitively in scope.
> 
> The scope seems worryingly large, to me, on this one. We could talk
> about modems, 3G modems, mice, headsets, webcams, phones running any one
> of a dozen different operating systems (all of which behave and are
> supported - or not - entirely differently), mp3 players, Wiimotes, drum
> kits, steering wheels, video cards (yes, I've got a USB video card
> here), or a zillion other completely different things (all my examples
> are things I actually have lying around my apartment somewhere). There's
> no real unified software layer handling all these cases (well, udev and
> hal probably get involved in most of them, but they're nowhere near the
> whole stack necessary to actually do anything useful), so I'm not sure
> we're going to get much useful focused work done with such a broad
> scope.
> 
> sorry to sound like Mr. Negative, just thought it was worth raising my
> concerns!

Apart from the USB video cards, if you have any of those, feel free to
come around.

I have modems, 3G modems, mice, headsets, webcams, phones running any
one of a dozen different operating systems, mp3 players, Wiimotes, and a
zillion other different things.

Though if you have a drum kit or steering wheel, I'd be happy to get
those (as my wishlist can confirm[1]).

Cheers

[1]: http://www.amazon.co.uk/registry/wishlist/TKL85H14LHFU/