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

[Ali Abdallah]

Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> 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?
>
>   
Sure it is better to wait for devicekit to be available everywhere, 
Ubuntu for example, will still ship the HAL based gpm 2.24 instead of 
the devicekit-power based 2.26 for its 9.04 release, so it will take 
time, what i'm suggesting here it is just a plan.

> Cheers,
>   
Cheers,

Ali.