PSARC/2007/499 Automatic discovery of network attached printers

[Artem Kachitchkine]

>>> The HAL addon, hald-addon-network-discovery, doesn't currently 
>>> discovery anything other than printers and we don't have plans to 
>>> extend it to look for anything else.
>>
>> Is that "we" the printing folks or the more general set of people working
>> on HAL?  I don't think I'd expect the printing folks to have any plans 
>> like
>> that.  :)
>>   
> The printing group, though I don't know of anyone else that is looking 
> to do anything else with it, but Artem would have a better idea.

Not that I'm aware of, inside or outside Sun. Developers for the "other" 
OS don't use HAL for network related functionality (though they do use 
DBus more and more).

-Artem