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

[Christian Dywan]

Am Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:31:47 +0100
schrieb Ali Abdallah <aliov at xfce.org>:

> Christian Dywan wrote:
> > Am Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:33:09 +0100
> > schrieb Ali Abdallah <aliov at xfce.org>:
> >
> >   
> >> 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. 
> >
> > Hey,
> >
> > I find it great that you're already looking into this mainly because
> > this provides the chance to influence development of DevicekitPower
> > early on, ie. if you find flaws, bugs or whatever.
> >
> > As a suggestion without knowing the code, maybe you can keep the
> > hal-based code somehow separate from the graphical interface, and
> > keep it supported, while starting to support DevicekitPower?
> >
> > I don't know if that's feasible, just an idea.
>
> I'm not sure if i understand what you mean, the HAL based xfpm
> version 0.6.0 will be always maintained, the DeviceKit-power based
> one will be developed for futur versions, is that what you mean.

I actually meant to suggest, that you could keep the HAL based code in
the same branch as the new DevicekitPower based code. Thinking that the
looks of the preferences and localizations wouldn't have to maintained
twice.

If you plan to keep the current HAL branch updated as long as HAL
is still what people have, that's fine as well :)

ciao,
    Christian