[Goodies-dev] battery plugins

Nick Schermer nickschermer at gmail.com
Tue Feb 24 08:57:06 CET 2009


2009/2/24 Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org>:
> I was making a summary from an irc discussion.
>
> Basically, legacy was seen as useful for non-hal systems (some Linux
> users which may not want to use hal, and *BSD, Solaris maybe, I don't
> know).

Yes, but that does not mean we have to maintain it... If those
packagers really want a battery plugin they can always pick the legacy
version from a branch.

> For hal_based vs. xfpm, Brian already said he didn't want a power
> manager, and thus he was perfectly fine with just a battery plugin.

I think the power manager and the plugin can perfectly live together,
sharing code, while not forcing any functionality.

> Imho an xfpm plugin with xfpm configured to not do anything wouldn't be
> that heavy, but I don't know.

I agree.

Nick



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