[Goodies-dev] Xfce power manager and DeviceKit-power!

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On lun, 2009-02-23 at 08:50 +0100, Ali Abdallah wrote:
> You may already know that Devicekit is going further to replace HAL ( i 
> guess ) , for this i just want to have your opinions about porting the 
> Power manager to use DeviceKit power (gnome power manager have been 
> already ported).
> 
> I have started a DeviceKit-power based version of the power manager on 
> my local svn server to exploit the usage of DeviceKit-power, i have 
> notice the following:
> 
> 1)-A lot of power management information can be collected from 
> DeviceKit-power, this simplify a lot xfce power manager.
> 2)-DeviceKit-power is a system bus daemon, all the work are done only 
> once (not per user session).
> 
> Please comments!

If it's simpler, cool. But hal is not yet used everywhere, and now they
already replace it by something else. I'm sure it's way better than hal,
but, hem, maybe it's safer to wait until devicekit is available
everywhere?

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis