Being notified about CD/DVD media

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

tor, 07.04.2005 kl. 19.06 skrev Davide Bolcioni:
> John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 18:42 +0200, Davide Bolcioni wrote:
>  >>
> >>My guess is that I should look at either HAL or D-BUS, but I would like 
> >>to hear about the pros and cons of each solution: as far as I know, HAL 
> >>feeds D-BUS but the latter is mainly intended for desktop applications, 
> >>so in my use case might not even be there.
> > 
> > D-BUS is for use from (right above) the kernel up to the Desktop.  You
> > can use it for system services also.  It is why we have a system bus in
> > the first place.
> 
> Well, the D-BUS pages at freedesktop.org seem a bit thin on 
> documentation. I could start listening on the system bus FIFO, but how 
> am I supposed to know what to listen for ?
> 
> I tried (as root) on a Fedora Core 3
> 
>    dbus-monitor --system
> 
> but inserting a blank CD resulted in no activity (is this what is 
> supposed to happen ?), while non-blank media results in significant 
> activity. I guess I could look at said activity and operate accordingly, 
> but I was wondering if there was some kind of specification I could code 
> against that would not change under my feet in the next release.

Hmm... Gnome pops up a burner window when i insert a blank media. How
does it do that?