I think there is also DBUS that seeks to solve this issue.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dbus
Don't know how to use it, but it has the ability to notify in this way.
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On 8/17/06, Klaus Heinz <heinz@netbsd.org> wrote:
> Ingolf Steinbach wrote:
>
> > Is something similar possible in NetBSD 3.0.1, i386? (I.e.
> > notification of a userland process that a new storage medium
> > is available.) Maybe it is already supported by the KDE
> > package for NetBSD?
>
> I admit I did not research thoroughly before answering here, so I may be
> mistaken, but I _think_ both GNOME and KDE adopted the "hal" idea from
> freedesktop.org[1]. There is a need for a hal-backend specific to
> NetBSD, just as people have started such a backend for OpenSolaris[2].
>
> ciao
>      Klaus
>
>
> [1] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/hal
> [2] http://opensolaris.org/os/project/tamarack/hal_re.html
>
>
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