[email protected] writes:
>the basic requirement is to detect is device
>- Harmattan
>- 1.2 Handset
>- Tablet
>- Screen Size and resolution

One "app" that gets confused about what hardware it's running on is
zypper.     For example, yesterday while zypper-up'ing xorg packages
from download.meego.com/live/Trunk/standard/, I got wrong
shared-object libraries, probably the ones for EMGD graphics instead
of the i915/i965 the ExoPC needs.

In other words, the problem described in this thread is a system of
the fact that

1.  The separation between processors, board variants, UXes and screen
resolutions in the OBS and package management system is not clean, in
that it doesn't properly mirror the commonly used hardware in our
community.    At a minimum, this system should work with N900, N950,
N9, Lenovo S10 and ExoPC, let alone more unusual hardware choices.

2. There *is* no single authoritative source for the needed
information in /etc, /proc or /sys.     At the moment, a developer
must cobble it together.

Best wishes,
Alison

-- 
Alison Chaiken
(650) 279-5600  (cell)
             http://www.exerciseforthereader.org/
"What you do for a living is not be creative, what you do is ship." --
Seth Godin, vimeo.com/5895898
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